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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... play . My lyre I tune , my voice I raise ; But with my numbers mix my sighs : And while I sing Euphelia's praise , I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes . Fair Chloe blush'd : Euphelia frown'd : I sung , and gazed : I play'd , and trembled ...
... play . My lyre I tune , my voice I raise ; But with my numbers mix my sighs : And while I sing Euphelia's praise , I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes . Fair Chloe blush'd : Euphelia frown'd : I sung , and gazed : I play'd , and trembled ...
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... play : How pleasing their sport is ! the wanton ones see And borrow their looks from my Jessy and me . To try her sweet temper , oft times am I seen , In revels all day with the nymphs on the green ; Tho ' painful my absence , my doubts ...
... play : How pleasing their sport is ! the wanton ones see And borrow their looks from my Jessy and me . To try her sweet temper , oft times am I seen , In revels all day with the nymphs on the green ; Tho ' painful my absence , my doubts ...
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... play the glutton there , All thoughts of cutting will disdain , Save only " cut and come again . " Samuel Bishop . CXVII . SIXTEENTH ANNI- TO HIS WIFE ON THE VERSARY OF HER WEDDING - DAY , WITH A RING . " THEE , Mary , with this ring I ...
... play the glutton there , All thoughts of cutting will disdain , Save only " cut and come again . " Samuel Bishop . CXVII . SIXTEENTH ANNI- TO HIS WIFE ON THE VERSARY OF HER WEDDING - DAY , WITH A RING . " THEE , Mary , with this ring I ...
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... plays ; Ah ! couldst thou hither come and go , To tell me what she says ! Go then , and when the morning cold Shall nip her lily arm , Do thou ( oh , might I be so bold ! ) With kisses make it warm . But when thy glossy beauty's o'er ...
... plays ; Ah ! couldst thou hither come and go , To tell me what she says ! Go then , and when the morning cold Shall nip her lily arm , Do thou ( oh , might I be so bold ! ) With kisses make it warm . But when thy glossy beauty's o'er ...
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... plays the fool before she dies , ' Tis an ugly envious shrew That rails at dear Lepell and you . CXXX . Alexander Pope . WHAT IS PRUDENCE ? PRUDENCE , Sir William , is a jewel- Is clothes , and meat , and drink , and fuel ! Prudence ...
... plays the fool before she dies , ' Tis an ugly envious shrew That rails at dear Lepell and you . CXXX . Alexander Pope . WHAT IS PRUDENCE ? PRUDENCE , Sir William , is a jewel- Is clothes , and meat , and drink , and fuel ! Prudence ...
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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