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 100
... turns up her eyes ; Those stars of the world are too good for the skies . But Chloe so lively , so easy , so fair , Her wit so genteel , without art , without care ; When she comes in my way , the emotion , the pain , The leapings , the ...
... turns up her eyes ; Those stars of the world are too good for the skies . But Chloe so lively , so easy , so fair , Her wit so genteel , without art , without care ; When she comes in my way , the emotion , the pain , The leapings , the ...
Page 106
... turning ; While every choir shall sadly sing , And Nature's self wear mourning . Yet we hereafter may be found , By destiny's right placing , Making , like flowers , love underground ,. Where roots are still embracing . CXXXVIII . Sir ...
... turning ; While every choir shall sadly sing , And Nature's self wear mourning . Yet we hereafter may be found , By destiny's right placing , Making , like flowers , love underground ,. Where roots are still embracing . CXXXVIII . Sir ...
Page 113
... turn'd and he varied full ten times a day : Tho ' secure of our hearts , yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick ; He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack , For he knew when he pleased he could ...
... turn'd and he varied full ten times a day : Tho ' secure of our hearts , yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick ; He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack , For he knew when he pleased he could ...
Page 115
... Turn the chief of your care from your face to your mind ' Tis thus that a wife may her conquests improve , And Hymen shall rivet the fetters of Love . David Garrick . CXLIX . Too plain , dear youth , these tell - tale eyes My heart your ...
... Turn the chief of your care from your face to your mind ' Tis thus that a wife may her conquests improve , And Hymen shall rivet the fetters of Love . David Garrick . CXLIX . Too plain , dear youth , these tell - tale eyes My heart your ...
Page 116
... poet may try , By a bounce now and then , to get courage to fly . But , my Lord , it's no bounce - I protest in my turn , It's a truth - and your lordship may ask Mr. Burn . To go on with my tale - as I gazed 116 Lyra Elegantiarum .
... poet may try , By a bounce now and then , to get courage to fly . But , my Lord , it's no bounce - I protest in my turn , It's a truth - and your lordship may ask Mr. Burn . To go on with my tale - as I gazed 116 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