Seven Centuries of Verse, English & American, from the Early English Lyrics to the Present Day, Volume 1Arthur James Marshall Smith |
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... Tell potentates , they live Acting by others ' action , Not loved unless they give , Not strong but by a faction : If potentates reply , Give potentates the lie . Tell men of high condition . That manage the estate , Their purpose is ...
... Tell potentates , they live Acting by others ' action , Not loved unless they give , Not strong but by a faction : If potentates reply , Give potentates the lie . Tell men of high condition . That manage the estate , Their purpose is ...
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... Tell age it daily wasteth ; Tell honour how it alters : Tell beauty how she blasteth ; Tell favour how it falters : And as they shall reply , Give every one the lie . Tell wit how much it wrangles In tickle points of niceness ; Tell ...
... Tell age it daily wasteth ; Tell honour how it alters : Tell beauty how she blasteth ; Tell favour how it falters : And as they shall reply , Give every one the lie . Tell wit how much it wrangles In tickle points of niceness ; Tell ...
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... Tell him he rises now , too late To show us aught worth looking at . Tell him we now can show him more Than he e'er showed to mortal sight ; Than he himself e'er saw before ; Which to be seen needs not his light . Tell him , Tityrus ...
... Tell him he rises now , too late To show us aught worth looking at . Tell him we now can show him more Than he e'er showed to mortal sight ; Than he himself e'er saw before ; Which to be seen needs not his light . Tell him , Tityrus ...
Contents
PART | 3 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340?1400 | 11 |
ENGLISH SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS | 53 |
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Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman beauty birds bless blood blow breast breath bright Clerk Saunders cloud dance dark dead dear death deep doth dream E. E. Cummings earth eternal eyes face fair fear fire flowers glory grace grave green hair hand hath head hear heard heart heaven John Barleycorn King kiss Lady of Shalott land leave light live look Lord Lord Randal Lycidas maid moon mordre morning never night nymph o'er pleasure Poems rose round shade shine sigh sight sing Sir Bedivere sleep snow song soul sound spirit spring stars sweet Sylphs T. S. Eliot tears tell Thalestris thee Theodore Roethke thine things thou art thou hast thought tree Twas voice W. H. Auden walk waves wild wind wings wonder woods