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... Jove's former loves , methinks , were vain ; With rich light locks , slim hand , and figure tall , My love , like Juno , moves the queen of all ; Stately as Pallas at th ' Ionian shrine , While the snake - tresses o'er her bosom twine ...
... Jove's former loves , methinks , were vain ; With rich light locks , slim hand , and figure tall , My love , like Juno , moves the queen of all ; Stately as Pallas at th ' Ionian shrine , While the snake - tresses o'er her bosom twine ...
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... may with thee compare , Worthy alone the couch of Jove to share . But thou wert born e'en Helen to outshine , And soar aloft o'er love so low as mine . To form so fair , sure all must bend the 32 [ BOOK II . PROPERTIUS .
... may with thee compare , Worthy alone the couch of Jove to share . But thou wert born e'en Helen to outshine , And soar aloft o'er love so low as mine . To form so fair , sure all must bend the 32 [ BOOK II . PROPERTIUS .
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... Jove Could scarcely sever those that truly love ; Great , great is Cæsar , yet his greatness rests On conquer'd nations , not in lovers ' breasts . Sooner shall sev'ring steel my neck divide , Than married bliss unwed me from thy side ...
... Jove Could scarcely sever those that truly love ; Great , great is Cæsar , yet his greatness rests On conquer'd nations , not in lovers ' breasts . Sooner shall sev'ring steel my neck divide , Than married bliss unwed me from thy side ...
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... Jove ! For gems she bade me to the deep descend , And e'en from Tyrian marts their treasures rend . Would that none rich had ever lived in Rome , And Romulus had kept his straw - built home ! Then our frail loves no gold would e'er ...
... Jove ! For gems she bade me to the deep descend , And e'en from Tyrian marts their treasures rend . Would that none rich had ever lived in Rome , And Romulus had kept his straw - built home ! Then our frail loves no gold would e'er ...
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... Jove laughs not always at false lovers ' guile , Nor spurns entreaties with an easy smile . Have ye not heard the gathering thunder roll , And mark'd the bolt of heaven leap down the pole ? They heed no Pleiad's voice , nor tempest's ...
... Jove laughs not always at false lovers ' guile , Nor spurns entreaties with an easy smile . Have ye not heard the gathering thunder roll , And mark'd the bolt of heaven leap down the pole ? They heed no Pleiad's voice , nor tempest's ...
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arms bade beauty beneath Bishop bliss Boötes bore Brasenose College breast brow Cæsar Callimachus Cambridge canst charm Cheltenham College Church Church of England Crown 8vo Cynthia dark death Dost E'en e'er Edward Meyrick Goulburn eyes fair fall false fame fate fear fire golden hair hear heart Heaven Henry Parry Liddon Holy John Henry Blunt Jove late Fellow Lecturer life's London Lord love's lovers lyre maid maidens mark'd Merton College methinks Muses ne'er never night nought o'er once Oxford Phoebus poor prayers Propertius roam Roman Rome Sackville College Second Edition Sermons shade shame shore shrine sing sleep Small 8vo soft song spurn stern stream tale Tarpeia tears tell thee thine thou art thou wilt throng tomb Trinity College Twas Venus wave weary weep wilt thou wine woo'd wouldst wrath yield yore
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