English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to JonsonJohn Williams Including authoritative texts of poems by twenty-three major and minor poets--from John Donne, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson to George Gasciogne and Fulke Greville--and Williams' critical preface, English Renaissance Poetry remains an invaluable introductory anthology of short poems from our first modern poetry. |
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Page 78
... Sing lullaby , as women do , Wherewith they bring their babes to rest , And lullaby can I sing too As womanly as can the best . With lullaby they still the child , And if I be not much beguiled , Full many wanton babes have I Which must ...
... Sing lullaby , as women do , Wherewith they bring their babes to rest , And lullaby can I sing too As womanly as can the best . With lullaby they still the child , And if I be not much beguiled , Full many wanton babes have I Which must ...
Page 162
... sing , The whiles the woods shall answer , and your echo ring . Now is my love all ready forth to come . Let all the virgins therefore well await , And ye fresh boys , that tend upon her groom , Prepare your selves , for he is coming ...
... sing , The whiles the woods shall answer , and your echo ring . Now is my love all ready forth to come . Let all the virgins therefore well await , And ye fresh boys , that tend upon her groom , Prepare your selves , for he is coming ...
Page 166
... Sing , ye sweet angels , Allelujah sing , That all the woods may answer , and your echo ring . Now all is done ; bring home the bride again , Bring home the triumph of our victory , Bring home with you the glory of her gain , With ...
... Sing , ye sweet angels , Allelujah sing , That all the woods may answer , and your echo ring . Now all is done ; bring home the bride again , Bring home the triumph of our victory , Bring home with you the glory of her gain , With ...
Contents
Sir Thomas More | 15 |
Thomas Lord Vaux | 51 |
George Gascoigne | 73 |
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Barnabe Googe beauty beauty's behold Ben Jonson bliss blood breath bright Caelica Cupid dear death delight desire didst disdain dost doth dwell earth echo ring edited Edmund Spenser English English poetry eyes face fair fame Fancy quoth farewell fear fire flowers fools fortune Fulke Greville George Gascoigne give Googe grace Greville grief hath heart heaven heavenly honor John Donne kiss leave light live look Lord love's lovers lullaby lust lute Michael Drayton mind mourn Muse Native never NICHOLAS GRIMALD night pain Petrarch Petrarchan play pleasure poems poet poetry praise rage rest Samuel Daniel scorn seek shadow shalt Sidney sigh sight sing sleep song sonnets sorrow soul sweet tears tell thee thine things Thomas Campion thou art thou hast thought unto verse wanton Whilst William Shakespeare worth Wyatt ye list youth
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Old Age in Myth and Symbol: A Cultural Dictionary Patrick Mckee,Jennifer Mclerran No preview available - 1991 |