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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Page 84
... poor who have all of these charms ; And I shall be rich when I've you in my arms . Unknown . CXVI . ΤΟ HIS WIFE WITH A KNIFE ON THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING - DAY , WHICH HAPPENED TO BE HER BIRTH - DAY AND NEW YEAR'S DAY ...
... poor who have all of these charms ; And I shall be rich when I've you in my arms . Unknown . CXVI . ΤΟ HIS WIFE WITH A KNIFE ON THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING - DAY , WHICH HAPPENED TO BE HER BIRTH - DAY AND NEW YEAR'S DAY ...
Page 93
... poor mouse would fare but hard in ; And round this garden is a walk , No longer than a tailor's chalk ; Thus I compare what space is in it , A snail creeps round it in a minute . One lettuce makes a shift to squeeze Up thro ' a tuft you ...
... poor mouse would fare but hard in ; And round this garden is a walk , No longer than a tailor's chalk ; Thus I compare what space is in it , A snail creeps round it in a minute . One lettuce makes a shift to squeeze Up thro ' a tuft you ...
Page 101
... Poor Shepherd , Amynta can no more be thine ; Thy tears are all fruitless , thy wishes are vain , The moments neglected return not again . Sir Gilbert Elliot . CXXXIV . STREPHON , when you see me fly , Why should that your fear create ...
... Poor Shepherd , Amynta can no more be thine ; Thy tears are all fruitless , thy wishes are vain , The moments neglected return not again . Sir Gilbert Elliot . CXXXIV . STREPHON , when you see me fly , Why should that your fear create ...
Page 106
... poor youth departed , Who kindly in his love excels , By dying broken - hearted . My grave with flowers let lovers strow , Which , if thy tears fall near them , May so transcend in scent and show , As thou wilt shortly wear them . Such ...
... poor youth departed , Who kindly in his love excels , By dying broken - hearted . My grave with flowers let lovers strow , Which , if thy tears fall near them , May so transcend in scent and show , As thou wilt shortly wear them . Such ...
Page 114
... They smile with the simple , and feed with the poor . When love has possess'd us , that love we reveal : Like the flocks that we feed are the passions we feel ; So harmless and simple we sport , and we play 114 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... They smile with the simple , and feed with the poor . When love has possess'd us , that love we reveal : Like the flocks that we feed are the passions we feel ; So harmless and simple we sport , and we play 114 Lyra Elegantiarum .
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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