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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... tell ; Her tress also should be of crisped gold . With wit , and these , perchance , I might be tried , And knit again with knot that should not slide . Sir Thomas Wyat . III . THE SERENADE . " WHO is it that this dark night Underneath ...
... tell ; Her tress also should be of crisped gold . With wit , and these , perchance , I might be tried , And knit again with knot that should not slide . Sir Thomas Wyat . III . THE SERENADE . " WHO is it that this dark night Underneath ...
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... Tell me , " , " said I , in deep distress , " Where may I find my shepherdess ? " " Thou fool , " said Love , " know'st thou not this , In everything that's good , she is ? In yonder tulip go and seek , There thou may'st find her lip ...
... Tell me , " , " said I , in deep distress , " Where may I find my shepherdess ? " " Thou fool , " said Love , " know'st thou not this , In everything that's good , she is ? In yonder tulip go and seek , There thou may'st find her lip ...
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... tell you , these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . Thomas Carew . XXVIII . THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE . " SHEPHERD , what's love ? I pray thee , tell ! " It is that fountain , and that well , Where pleasure and ...
... tell you , these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . Thomas Carew . XXVIII . THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE . " SHEPHERD , what's love ? I pray thee , tell ! " It is that fountain , and that well , Where pleasure and ...
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... TELL me not , Sweet , I am unkind , That from the nunnery Of your chaste breast and quiet mind , To war and arms I fly . True , a new mistress now I chase , The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword , a ...
... TELL me not , Sweet , I am unkind , That from the nunnery Of your chaste breast and quiet mind , To war and arms I fly . True , a new mistress now I chase , The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword , a ...
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... ; Love makes those young , whom age doth chill , And whom he finds young , keeps young still . And now since you and I are such , Tell me what's yours and what is mine ? Our eyes , our ears , our taste , smell 36 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM .
... ; Love makes those young , whom age doth chill , And whom he finds young , keeps young still . And now since you and I are such , Tell me what's yours and what is mine ? Our eyes , our ears , our taste , smell 36 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM .
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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