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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... young sinner ? Prithee why so mute ? Will , when speaking well can't win her , Saying nothing do't ? Prithee why so mute ? Quit , quit , for shame , this will not move , This cannot take her ; If of herself she will not love , Nothing ...
... young sinner ? Prithee why so mute ? Will , when speaking well can't win her , Saying nothing do't ? Prithee why so mute ? Quit , quit , for shame , this will not move , This cannot take her ; If of herself she will not love , Nothing ...
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... young colt's neck . Her feet beneath her petticoat , Like little mice , stole in and out , As if they fear'd the light : But O ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter - day Is half so fine a sight . Her cheeks so rare a white ...
... young colt's neck . Her feet beneath her petticoat , Like little mice , stole in and out , As if they fear'd the light : But O ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter - day Is half so fine a sight . Her cheeks so rare a white ...
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... young , All you , who have carried that burthen too long , Who have lost precious time , -and you who are losing , Betray'd by your fears between doubting and choosing ; Draw nearer , and learn what will settle your mind : You'll find ...
... young , All you , who have carried that burthen too long , Who have lost precious time , -and you who are losing , Betray'd by your fears between doubting and choosing ; Draw nearer , and learn what will settle your mind : You'll find ...
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... young , And truth in every shepherd's tongue , Then pretty 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 ...
... young , And truth in every shepherd's tongue , Then pretty 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 ...
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... YOUNG ENOUGH FOR ME . A Fragment . CHLOE , why wish you that your years Would backwards run , till they meet mine ... young , whom age doth chill , And whom he finds young , keeps young still . And now since you and I are such , Tell me ...
... YOUNG ENOUGH FOR ME . A Fragment . CHLOE , why wish you that your years Would backwards run , till they meet mine ... young , whom age doth chill , And whom he finds young , keeps young still . And now since you and I are such , Tell me ...
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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