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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... pleasure in allowing me to dedicate this little work to yourself . I hesitated to ask the favor , because the book might seem to be of too trifling a character , to be connected with so venerable a name ; but then I remembered your ...
... pleasure in allowing me to dedicate this little work to yourself . I hesitated to ask the favor , because the book might seem to be of too trifling a character , to be connected with so venerable a name ; but then I remembered your ...
Page 4
... pleasure known to us poor swains , All our merry meetings on the plains , All our evening sport from us is fled , All our Love is lost , for Love is dead . Farewell , sweet lass , thy like ne'er was For LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . VI. ...
... pleasure known to us poor swains , All our merry meetings on the plains , All our evening sport from us is fled , All our Love is lost , for Love is dead . Farewell , sweet lass , thy like ne'er was For LYRA ELEGANTIARUM . VI. ...
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... pleasures die : Phillis hath forsaken me , Which makes me wear the willow - tree . WILLY . Phillis ! she that loved thee long ? Is she the lass hath done thee wrong ? She that loved thee long and best , Is her love turn'd to a jest ...
... pleasures die : Phillis hath forsaken me , Which makes me wear the willow - tree . WILLY . Phillis ! she that loved thee long ? Is she the lass hath done thee wrong ? She that loved thee long and best , Is her love turn'd to a jest ...
Page 19
... pleasure and repentance dwell ; It is , perhaps , that passing bell That tolls us all to heaven or hell ; And this is love , as I heard tell . " Yet , what is love ? I pray thee , say ! " — It is a work on holiday : It is December match ...
... pleasure and repentance dwell ; It is , perhaps , that passing bell That tolls us all to heaven or hell ; And this is love , as I heard tell . " Yet , what is love ? I pray thee , say ! " — It is a work on holiday : It is December match ...
Page 35
... pleasures might me move , To live with thee , and be thy love . Time drives the flocks from field to fold When rivers rage , and rocks grow cold , And Philomel becometh dumb ; The rest complain of cares to come . The flowers do fade ...
... pleasures might me move , To live with thee , and be thy love . Time drives the flocks from field to fold When rivers rage , and rocks grow cold , And Philomel becometh dumb ; The rest complain of cares to come . The flowers do fade ...
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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