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... soul's long - lackèd food , my heaven's bliss , Leaves , lines , and rimes , seek her to please alone , Whom if ye please , I care for other none . EDMUND SPENSER 1552 ? -1599 IX ( 5 ) RUDELY thou wrongest my dear heart's desire , In ...
... soul's long - lackèd food , my heaven's bliss , Leaves , lines , and rimes , seek her to please alone , Whom if ye please , I care for other none . EDMUND SPENSER 1552 ? -1599 IX ( 5 ) RUDELY thou wrongest my dear heart's desire , In ...
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... soul of Petrarch wept ; And from thenceforth those Graces were not seen , For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse . Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed , And groans of buried ...
... soul of Petrarch wept ; And from thenceforth those Graces were not seen , For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse . Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed , And groans of buried ...
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... soul , set free by martyrdom , Was crowned by God in angels ' company , And angels ' hands thy body did entomb . XXXIX THOMAS LODGE 1556 ? -1625 AIR art thou , Phyllis ; ay , so fair , sweet maid , FAIR As nor the sun nor I have seen ...
... soul , set free by martyrdom , Was crowned by God in angels ' company , And angels ' hands thy body did entomb . XXXIX THOMAS LODGE 1556 ? -1625 AIR art thou , Phyllis ; ay , so fair , sweet maid , FAIR As nor the sun nor I have seen ...
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... soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view , Which , like a jewel hung in ghastly night , Makes black Night beauteous and her old face new . Lo ! thus , by day my limbs , by night my mind For thee and for myself no ...
... soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view , Which , like a jewel hung in ghastly night , Makes black Night beauteous and her old face new . Lo ! thus , by day my limbs , by night my mind For thee and for myself no ...
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... soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come Can yet the lease of my true Love controul , Supposed as forfeit to a cónfined doom . The mortal Moon hath her eclipse endured , And the sad augurs mock their own presage ; Incertainties ...
... soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come Can yet the lease of my true Love controul , Supposed as forfeit to a cónfined doom . The mortal Moon hath her eclipse endured , And the sad augurs mock their own presage ; Incertainties ...
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Barnabe Barnes beauty birds blest Book breath bright Charles Lamb CHARLES TENNYSON clouds dark dead dear death delight divine dost doth dream earth edition EDMUND SPENSER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English Sonnets eyes fair fancy fear flowers gentle glory golden grace green Grosart hand happy Hartley Coleridge hath heart heaven Henry honour John JOHN CLARE John Keats John Milton Keats Leigh Hunt light lines live Lord Love's memory Milton mind morn Muse never night o'er passion Poems poet poet's Poetical poetry praise printed rime rose Samuel Daniel says shadow Shakspeare's shine Sidney sight silent sing sleep soft song soul Spenser spirit spring star sweet tears tender thee thine things Thomas thou art thought unto verse voice William Caldwell Roscoe William Drummond WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings words writing written
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Page 52 - Love's not Time's Fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Page 36 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses...
Page 34 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 51 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 33 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 142 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Page 27 - come let us kiss and part, — Nay I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free...
Page 46 - They that have power to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others , are themselves as stone , Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow ; They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expense ; They are the lords and owners of their faces , Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die...
Page 72 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 289 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.