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Page xlii
... unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning , most loving mere folly . Merrily , merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that swings on the bough.1 The measures of the Elizabethan lyric exhibit great diversity , whether in ...
... unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning , most loving mere folly . Merrily , merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that swings on the bough.1 The measures of the Elizabethan lyric exhibit great diversity , whether in ...
Page lxv
... unto the weather changing art . For in foul weather birds sing often will In hope of fair , and in fair time will cease , For fear fair time will not continue still : So they may mourn which have thy heart possessed , For fear of change ...
... unto the weather changing art . For in foul weather birds sing often will In hope of fair , and in fair time will cease , For fear fair time will not continue still : So they may mourn which have thy heart possessed , For fear of change ...
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... unto decay ? No , no , Desire both lives and dies A thousand times a day . Then , Fond Desire , farewell , Thou art no make for me , I should be loath , methinks , to dwell With such a one as thee . 25 30 35 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , from MS ...
... unto decay ? No , no , Desire both lives and dies A thousand times a day . Then , Fond Desire , farewell , Thou art no make for me , I should be loath , methinks , to dwell With such a one as thee . 25 30 35 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , from MS ...
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... unto her sprite , Till her eyes shine live in darkest night . 5 1Ο SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , Astrophel and Stella , 1591 ; written be- fore 1582 . FIRST SONG . DOUBT you to whom my Muse these notes intendeth , Which now my breast surcharged ...
... unto her sprite , Till her eyes shine live in darkest night . 5 1Ο SIR PHILIP SIDNEY , Astrophel and Stella , 1591 ; written be- fore 1582 . FIRST SONG . DOUBT you to whom my Muse these notes intendeth , Which now my breast surcharged ...
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... unto ashes must , And generations to corruption turns , Then fond desires that only fear their end , 5 Do vainly wish for life , but to amend . But when this life is from the body fled , To see itself in that eternal glass , Where time ...
... unto ashes must , And generations to corruption turns , Then fond desires that only fear their end , 5 Do vainly wish for life , but to amend . But when this life is from the body fled , To see itself in that eternal glass , Where time ...
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Astrophel and Stella BARNABE BARNES Beaumont beauty BEN JONSON birds Breton bright Bullen Campion couplet Daniel Davison death delight Dirge Donne doth Drayton Drummond earth Elizabethan Elizabethan lyric England's Helicon English eyes fair fancy fear Fleay Fletcher flowers Francis Beaumont golden grace Gram green Grosart hath heart heaven Henry honor Italian Jonson kiss lady live Love's lovers Lyrics from Elizabethan lyrists madrigal metre metrical Michael Drayton mistress Muse never NICHOLAS BRETON night nonny passion pastoral Philip Rosseter Phyllis play pleasure poem poetry poets praise pretty printed quatorzain Queen rimes roses SAMUEL DANIEL sense Shakespeare shepherd Sidney sighs sing sleep Song Books sonnet sorrow soul Spenser stanza sweet content tercets thee Thomas THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS DEKKER thou art thought trochaic unto verse wanton weep whilst WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE words writing written ΙΟ