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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... hear ! your true love's coming , That can sing both high and low ; Trip no further , pretty sweeting , Journeys end in lovers ' meeting- Every wise man's son doth know . What is love ? ' tis not hereafter ; Present mirth hath present ...
... hear ! your true love's coming , That can sing both high and low ; Trip no further , pretty sweeting , Journeys end in lovers ' meeting- Every wise man's son doth know . What is love ? ' tis not hereafter ; Present mirth hath present ...
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... Hear , ten months after , of the play ; And this is love , as I hear say . " Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , saine ! " — It is a sunshine mix'd with rain ; It is a tooth - ache , or like pain ; It is a game where none doth gain ...
... Hear , ten months after , of the play ; And this is love , as I hear say . " Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , saine ! " — It is a sunshine mix'd with rain ; It is a tooth - ache , or like pain ; It is a game where none doth gain ...
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... hear say . " Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , show ! " — A thing that creeps , it cannot go , A prize that passeth to and fro , A thing for one , a thing for moe ; And he that proves shall find it so ; And , shepherd , this is love ...
... hear say . " Yet , what is love ? good shepherd , show ! " — A thing that creeps , it cannot go , A prize that passeth to and fro , A thing for one , a thing for moe ; And he that proves shall find it so ; And , shepherd , this is love ...
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... hear , That dies in every note , As if it sigh'd with each man's care For being so remote ; Think then how often love we've made To you , when all those tunes were play'd . In justice , you cannot refuse To think of our distress , When ...
... hear , That dies in every note , As if it sigh'd with each man's care For being so remote ; Think then how often love we've made To you , when all those tunes were play'd . In justice , you cannot refuse To think of our distress , When ...
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... hear of no inconstancy , We have too much of that at sea . With a fa la , la , la , la . Charles Sackville , Earl of Dorset . LXXVIII . To ALTHEA , FROM PRISON . WHEN Love with unconfinèd wings Hovers within my gates , And my divine ...
... hear of no inconstancy , We have too much of that at sea . With a fa la , la , la , la . Charles Sackville , Earl of Dorset . LXXVIII . To ALTHEA , FROM PRISON . WHEN Love with unconfinèd wings Hovers within my gates , And my divine ...
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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