Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de Société and Vers D'occasion in the English Language by Deceased AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson |
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... passion , and where humor never overflows into boisterous merriment . The Editor is not aware that a collection of this peculiar species of exquisitely rounded and polished verse , which , for want of a better title , he.
... passion , and where humor never overflows into boisterous merriment . The Editor is not aware that a collection of this peculiar species of exquisitely rounded and polished verse , which , for want of a better title , he.
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... round , fill'd to the brink , To this and t'other friend I drink ; And if ' tis named another's health , I never make it hers by stealth . Black Fryars to me , and old Whitehall , Is even as much as is the fall Of fountains or a ...
... round , fill'd to the brink , To this and t'other friend I drink ; And if ' tis named another's health , I never make it hers by stealth . Black Fryars to me , and old Whitehall , Is even as much as is the fall Of fountains or a ...
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... round Is no where found To flaw , or else to sever ; So let our love As endless prove , And pure as gold forever . Robert Herrick . XLIV . I PR'YTHEE send me back my heart , Since I cannot have thine ; For if from yours you will not ...
... round Is no where found To flaw , or else to sever ; So let our love As endless prove , And pure as gold forever . Robert Herrick . XLIV . I PR'YTHEE send me back my heart , Since I cannot have thine ; For if from yours you will not ...
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... round , so soft , so plump as she , Nor half so full of juice . Her finger was so small , the ring Would not stay on which they did bring ; It was too wide a peck : And to say truth ( for out it must ) It look'd like the great collar ...
... round , so soft , so plump as she , Nor half so full of juice . Her finger was so small , the ring Would not stay on which they did bring ; It was too wide a peck : And to say truth ( for out it must ) It look'd like the great collar ...
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... round , and then the house , The bride's come thick and thick ; And when ' twas named another's health , Perhaps he made it hers by stealth , And who could help it , Dick ? O ' th ' sudden up they rise and dance ; Then sit again , and ...
... round , and then the house , The bride's come thick and thick ; And when ' twas named another's health , Perhaps he made it hers by stealth , And who could help it , Dick ? O ' th ' sudden up they rise and dance ; Then sit again , and ...
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Alexander Pope Araminta beauty bliss blush bright Burnham-beeches charms cheek Chloe Cupid dance dear delight Derry doth e'er Earl eyes fair fate fear flowers gaze give gone grace hand happy haste hath hear heart Heaven heigh-ho Henry Luttrell hour John Wolcot Jonathan Swift kind kiss kiss'd Lady Landor lass laugh lips live look Lord Love's lover maid Matthew Prior mind morning muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once pain play pleasant pleasure poet poor Praed pray Robert Herrick rose round shepherd sigh sing Sir John Suckling sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sure swain sweet taste tears tell there's thine thing Thomas Carew Thomas Hood Thomas Moore thou thought thro to-morrow true Twas Unknown vers de société verse vex'd Walter wife William William Cowper wish young youth