Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1810 |
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... sing , That my frail eyes these lines with tears do steep , To think how she through guileful handelling , Though true as touch , though daughter of a king , Though fair as ever living wight was fair , Though nor in word nor deed ill ...
... sing , That my frail eyes these lines with tears do steep , To think how she through guileful handelling , Though true as touch , though daughter of a king , Though fair as ever living wight was fair , Though nor in word nor deed ill ...
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... sing ; No song , but did contain a lively dit . Trees , branches , birds , and songs , were framed fit For to allure frail mind to careless ease . Careless the man soon woxe , and his weak wit Was overcome of thing that did him please ...
... sing ; No song , but did contain a lively dit . Trees , branches , birds , and songs , were framed fit For to allure frail mind to careless ease . Careless the man soon woxe , and his weak wit Was overcome of thing that did him please ...
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... sings , Still quiring to the young - eyed cherubims ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But , whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in , we cannot hear it . Enter Musicians . Come , ho , and wake Diana with a hymn ...
... sings , Still quiring to the young - eyed cherubims ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But , whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in , we cannot hear it . Enter Musicians . Come , ho , and wake Diana with a hymn ...
Page 27
... sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended ; and , I think , The nightingale , if she should sing by day , When every goose is cackling , would be thought No better a musician than the wren . How many things by season season'd ...
... sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended ; and , I think , The nightingale , if she should sing by day , When every goose is cackling , would be thought No better a musician than the wren . How many things by season season'd ...
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... sing madrigals . And I will make thee beds of roses , And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers , and a kirtle , Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle . A gown made of the finest wool , Which from our pretty lambs we pull ; Fair ...
... sing madrigals . And I will make thee beds of roses , And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers , and a kirtle , Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle . A gown made of the finest wool , Which from our pretty lambs we pull ; Fair ...
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