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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... youth . Thus with many a pretty oath , Yea , and nay , and faith and troth ! - Such as silly shepherds use When they will not love abuse ; Love , which had been long deluded , Was with kisses sweet concluded : And Phillida , with ...
... youth . Thus with many a pretty oath , Yea , and nay , and faith and troth ! - Such as silly shepherds use When they will not love abuse ; Love , which had been long deluded , Was with kisses sweet concluded : And Phillida , with ...
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... Youth's a stuff will not endure . William Shakspere XVI . I DO Confess thou'rt smooth and fair , And I might have gone near to love thee ; Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak had power to move thee : But I can let ...
... Youth's a stuff will not endure . William Shakspere XVI . I DO Confess thou'rt smooth and fair , And I might have gone near to love thee ; Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak had power to move thee : But I can let ...
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... youth and blood are warmer But being spent , the worse , and worst Times still succeed the former . Then be not coy , but use your time , And while you may , go marry : For having lost but once your prime , You may forever tarry ...
... youth and blood are warmer But being spent , the worse , and worst Times still succeed the former . Then be not coy , but use your time , And while you may , go marry : For having lost but once your prime , You may forever tarry ...
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... youth was going To made an end of all his wooing ; The parson for him staid : Yet by his leave , for all his haste , He did not so much wish all past , Perchance , as did the maid . The maid , and thereby hangs a tale , For such a maid ...
... youth was going To made an end of all his wooing ; The parson for him staid : Yet by his leave , for all his haste , He did not so much wish all past , Perchance , as did the maid . The maid , and thereby hangs a tale , For such a maid ...
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... youth carouse ; Healths first go 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 ...
... youth carouse ; Healths first go 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 ...
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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