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... live by fame : My verse your virtues fair shall éternize , And in the heavens write your glorious name . Where , whenas death shall all the world subdue , Our love shall live and later life renew . C EDMUND SPENSER . 1552-1599 . HIS ...
... live by fame : My verse your virtues fair shall éternize , And in the heavens write your glorious name . Where , whenas death shall all the world subdue , Our love shall live and later life renew . C EDMUND SPENSER . 1552-1599 . HIS ...
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... LIVE TWICE . WHO will believe my verse in time to come , If it were filled with your most high deserts ? Though yet , heaven knows , it is but as a tomb , Which hides your life and shows not half your parts . If I could write the beauty ...
... LIVE TWICE . WHO will believe my verse in time to come , If it were filled with your most high deserts ? Though yet , heaven knows , it is but as a tomb , Which hides your life and shows not half your parts . If I could write the beauty ...
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... lives of these good men , Dropped from an angel's wing . With moistened eye We read of Faith and purest Charity In statesman , priest , and humble citizen . O could we copy their mild virtues , then What joy to live , what blessedness ...
... lives of these good men , Dropped from an angel's wing . With moistened eye We read of Faith and purest Charity In statesman , priest , and humble citizen . O could we copy their mild virtues , then What joy to live , what blessedness ...
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beauty behold bird breath bright charm dark DAVID GRAY dear death delight divine dost doth dream earth EDMUND SPENSER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English Sonnets eternal eyes fade fair Faith fame fear feel flowers friends glory grace grief happy HARTLEY COLERIDGE hast hath heart heaven heavenly HEMANS HENRY CONSTABLE honour hope JOHN KEATS JOHN KEBLE JOHN MILTON JULIAN FANE Lady language light live look Lord love thee Love's Massey's mind Mistress morn Muse never night o'er passion Petrarch pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry praise pray SAMUEL DANIEL Shakespeare shine sight silent sing sleep song sonnet writer sorrow soul sound SPEARE spirit SURREY sweet tears thine things THOMAS WARTON thou art thought toil verse voice weary weep WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE WILLIAM DRUMMOND WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES WILLIAM SHAKE WILLIAM WORDS Wordsworth WORTH youth