Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
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... give , if any , yet but little sound . Deep waters noiseless are ; and this we know , That chiding streams betray small depth below . So when Love speechless is , she doth express A depth in love , and that depth bottomless . Now since ...
... give , if any , yet but little sound . Deep waters noiseless are ; and this we know , That chiding streams betray small depth below . So when Love speechless is , she doth express A depth in love , and that depth bottomless . Now since ...
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... give , Let's lose no time , but leave her : That giant upon air will live , And hold it out for ever . To such a place our camp remove As will no siege abide ; I hate a fool that starves her love , Only to feed her pride . Sir John ...
... give , Let's lose no time , but leave her : That giant upon air will live , And hold it out for ever . To such a place our camp remove As will no siege abide ; I hate a fool that starves her love , Only to feed her pride . Sir John ...
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... give , And in those souls did plant new powers ; Since when another life we live , The breath we breathe is his , not ours ; Love makes those young , whom age doth chill , And whom he finds young , keeps young still . And now since you ...
... give , And in those souls did plant new powers ; Since when another life we live , The breath we breathe is his , not ours ; Love makes those young , whom age doth chill , And whom he finds young , keeps young still . And now since you ...
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... give Beneath the myrtle shade . LXVI . Sir Charles Sedley . ' Tis not your saying that you love Can ease me of my smart ; Your actions must your words approve , Or else you break my heart . In vain you bid my passions cease , And ease ...
... give Beneath the myrtle shade . LXVI . Sir Charles Sedley . ' Tis not your saying that you love Can ease me of my smart ; Your actions must your words approve , Or else you break my heart . In vain you bid my passions cease , And ease ...
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... give , I cannot , will not cease to love , But I will cease to live . LXVII . Aphra Behn . AH , Chloris ! could I now but sit As unconcern'd as when Your infant beauty could beget No happiness or pain ! When I this dawning did admire ...
... give , I cannot , will not cease to love , But I will cease to live . LXVII . Aphra Behn . AH , Chloris ! could I now but sit As unconcern'd as when Your infant beauty could beget No happiness or pain ! When I this dawning did admire ...
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Alexander Pope beauty Ben Jonson bliss blush Bouillabaisse bright Burnham-beeches C. S. Calverley charms cheek Chloe cried Cupid dear delight Derry doth Earl eyes face fair fear flowers give gone grace grave hand happy hath hear heart Heaven heigh-ho John Wolcot kind kiss Lady laugh lips live look Lord Love's lover maid Matthew Prior mind morning muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once pain passion play pleasant pleasure poem poet Poetical poor Praed pray Robert Herrick rose round shepherd sigh sing sleep smile soft song soul sure swain sweet taste tears tell thee There's thine thing Thomas Thomas Carew Thomas Hood Thomas Moore thou thought thro tree true Twas Unknown verse Walter Savage Landor wife William William Cowper William Makepeace Thackeray wine wish young youth