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Page 83
... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven Is thick ...
... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven Is thick ...
Page 175
... sweet , but figures of delight , Drawn after you , you pattern of all those . Yet seem'd it winter still , and , you away , As with your shadow I with these did play . XCIX THE forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief , whence ...
... sweet , but figures of delight , Drawn after you , you pattern of all those . Yet seem'd it winter still , and , you away , As with your shadow I with these did play . XCIX THE forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief , whence ...
Page 206
... sweet , all is not sound . Give me a look , give me a face , That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing , hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me , Than all th ' adulteries of art . They strike mine eyes , but not my ...
... sweet , all is not sound . Give me a look , give me a face , That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing , hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me , Than all th ' adulteries of art . They strike mine eyes , but not my ...
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EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
Chorus of Priests | 49 |
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