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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... o'er , Whose images are kept in store By memory alone . The time that is to come , is not ; How , then , can it be mine ? The present moment's all my lot , And that , as fast as it is got , Phillis , is only thine . Then talk not of ...
... o'er , Whose images are kept in store By memory alone . The time that is to come , is not ; How , then , can it be mine ? The present moment's all my lot , And that , as fast as it is got , Phillis , is only thine . Then talk not of ...
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... O'er craggy mountains , and thro ' flowery meads ; Invoked to testify the lover's care , Or form some image of his cruel fair . Urged with his fury , like a wounded deer , O'er these he fled ; and now approaching near , Had reached the ...
... O'er craggy mountains , and thro ' flowery meads ; Invoked to testify the lover's care , Or form some image of his cruel fair . Urged with his fury , like a wounded deer , O'er these he fled ; and now approaching near , Had reached the ...
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... . DAMON AND CUPID . THE SUN was now withdrawn , The shepherds home were sped ; The moon wide o'er the lawn Her silver mantle spread ; When Damon stay'd behind , And saunter'd in the grove 62 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . XCIII. ...
... . DAMON AND CUPID . THE SUN was now withdrawn , The shepherds home were sped ; The moon wide o'er the lawn Her silver mantle spread ; When Damon stay'd behind , And saunter'd in the grove 62 LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . XCIII. ...
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... o'er Earth ' tis his fancy to run ; At night he declines on his Thetis ' breast . So when I am wearied with wandering all day ; To thee , my delight , in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way : They were but my ...
... o'er Earth ' tis his fancy to run ; At night he declines on his Thetis ' breast . So when I am wearied with wandering all day ; To thee , my delight , in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way : They were but my ...
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... O'er the bounds of thirty - five . High to soar and deep to dive , Nature gives at thirty - five . Ladies , stock and tend your hive , Trifle not at thirty - five ; For , howe'er we boast and strive , Life declines from thirty - five ...
... O'er the bounds of thirty - five . High to soar and deep to dive , Nature gives at thirty - five . Ladies , stock and tend your hive , Trifle not at thirty - five ; For , howe'er we boast and strive , Life declines from thirty - five ...
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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