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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... hear my Kenna sing a song ; There , see a blackbird feed her young , Or , a laverock build her nest : Here , give my weary spirits rest , And raise my low - pitch'd thoughts above Earth , or what poor mortals love : Thus , free from ...
... hear my Kenna sing a song ; There , see a blackbird feed her young , Or , a laverock build her nest : Here , give my weary spirits rest , And raise my low - pitch'd thoughts above Earth , or what poor mortals love : Thus , free from ...
Page 57
... hear with delight . Others ' beauties others move : In you I all the graces find ; Such are the effects of love , To make them happy that are kind , Women in frail beauty trust ; Only seem you kind to me ! Still be truly kind and just ...
... hear with delight . Others ' beauties others move : In you I all the graces find ; Such are the effects of love , To make them happy that are kind , Women in frail beauty trust ; Only seem you kind to me ! Still be truly kind and just ...
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... hear Scandal tickling in our ear , E'en of our own mothers ; In the chit - chat of the day , To us is paid , when we're away , What we lent to others . Though the favourite Toast I reign ; Wine , they say , that prompts the vain ...
... hear Scandal tickling in our ear , E'en of our own mothers ; In the chit - chat of the day , To us is paid , when we're away , What we lent to others . Though the favourite Toast I reign ; Wine , they say , that prompts the vain ...
Page 79
... hear than see . O ne'er may Fortune show her spite , To make me deaf , and mend my sight . Jonathan Swift . CX . STELLA'S BIRTHDAY , MARCH 13 , 1726 . THIS day , whate'er the Fates decree , Shall still be kept with joy by me : This day ...
... hear than see . O ne'er may Fortune show her spite , To make me deaf , and mend my sight . Jonathan Swift . CX . STELLA'S BIRTHDAY , MARCH 13 , 1726 . THIS day , whate'er the Fates decree , Shall still be kept with joy by me : This day ...
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... pretty creatures , While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features , To hear them lisp their mother's tongue . And when with envy time transported , Shall think to 82 Lyra Elegantiarum . CXII. ...
... pretty creatures , While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features , To hear them lisp their mother's tongue . And when with envy time transported , Shall think to 82 Lyra Elegantiarum . CXII. ...
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