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... we ' esteem Let others sing of knights Restore thy tresses And whither , poor Forsaken 25 · · ib . · · 26 ib . · 27 · ib . Those dates marked thus are doubtful . N. BRETON . 1555-1624 * . Phillida and Corydon The vi CONTENTS .
... we ' esteem Let others sing of knights Restore thy tresses And whither , poor Forsaken 25 · · ib . · · 26 ib . · 27 · ib . Those dates marked thus are doubtful . N. BRETON . 1555-1624 * . Phillida and Corydon The vi CONTENTS .
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... sings , The turtle to her mate hath told her tale . Summer is come : for every spray now springs . The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings , The fishes float , with new repaired scale ...
... sings , The turtle to her mate hath told her tale . Summer is come : for every spray now springs . The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings , The fishes float , with new repaired scale ...
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... sing , In joy and woe , as in a doubtful case : For my sweet thoughts , some time do pleasure bring But , by and by , the cause of my disease Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting ; When that I think what grief it is , again , To ...
... sing , In joy and woe , as in a doubtful case : For my sweet thoughts , some time do pleasure bring But , by and by , the cause of my disease Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting ; When that I think what grief it is , again , To ...
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... sing I now , because I think How joys approach when sorrows shrink , And as fair Philomene again Can watch and sing when others sleep , And taketh pleasure in her pain , To wray the woe that makes her weep : So sing I now , for to ...
... sing I now , because I think How joys approach when sorrows shrink , And as fair Philomene again Can watch and sing when others sleep , And taketh pleasure in her pain , To wray the woe that makes her weep : So sing I now , for to ...
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... sings the staring owl , Tu - whit ! tu - whoo ! A merry note , While greasy Joan doth keel the pot . When all aloud the wind doth blow , And coughing drowns the parson's saw , And birds sit brooding in the snow , And Marian's nose looks ...
... sings the staring owl , Tu - whit ! tu - whoo ! A merry note , While greasy Joan doth keel the pot . When all aloud the wind doth blow , And coughing drowns the parson's saw , And birds sit brooding in the snow , And Marian's nose looks ...
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Page 183 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
Page 189 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 14 - Fear no more the frown o' the great: Thou art past the tyrant's stroke. Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 180 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 223 - Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 186 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity ; Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles.
Page 180 - But first, and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight.
Page 163 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king. All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants, belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice; Man for thee does sow and plow; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Page 216 - Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did that Want supply: So rich in Treasures of her Own, She might our boasted Stores defy: Such Noble Vigour did her Verse adorn, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born.
Page 125 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?