Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de Société and Vers D'occasion in the English Language by Deceased Authors |
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... grows , Most barren with best using . Why so ? More we enjoy it , more it dies , If not enjoy'd , it sighing cries Heigh - ho ! Love is a torment of the mind , A tempest everlasting ; And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well , nor full ...
... grows , Most barren with best using . Why so ? More we enjoy it , more it dies , If not enjoy'd , it sighing cries Heigh - ho ! Love is a torment of the mind , A tempest everlasting ; And Jove hath made it of a kind Not well , nor full ...
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... grow ! Well , if she do , I'll back restore that one , And twenty hundred thousand more for loan . George Wither . XVIII . TO CELIA . DRINK to me only with thine eyes , And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I ...
... grow ! Well , if she do , I'll back restore that one , And twenty hundred thousand more for loan . George Wither . XVIII . TO CELIA . DRINK to me only with thine eyes , And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I ...
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... grows , and smells , I swear , Not of itself , but thee ! Ben Jonson . XIX . A MADRIGAL . AMARYLLIS I did woo , And I courted Phillis too ; Daphne for her love I chose , Chloris , for that damask rose In her cheek , I held so dear , Yea ...
... grows , and smells , I swear , Not of itself , but thee ! Ben Jonson . XIX . A MADRIGAL . AMARYLLIS I did woo , And I courted Phillis too ; Daphne for her love I chose , Chloris , for that damask rose In her cheek , I held so dear , Yea ...
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... grow , Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall o ' the sno Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down ever ? Or have smell'd o ' the bud of the briar ? Or the ' nard ...
... grow , Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall o ' the sno Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down ever ? Or have smell'd o ' the bud of the briar ? Or the ' nard ...
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... grow : There cherries grow that none may buy , Till cherry - ripe themselves do cry . Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearls a double 22 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . XXXIII, ...
... grow : There cherries grow that none may buy , Till cherry - ripe themselves do cry . Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearls a double 22 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . XXXIII, ...
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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 king 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