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Ay me ! but yet thou mightst my seat forbear , And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth , Who lead thee in their riot even there Where thou art forc'd to break a twofold truth ;Hers , by thy beauty tempting her to thee , Thine , by ...
Ay me ! but yet thou mightst my seat forbear , And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth , Who lead thee in their riot even there Where thou art forc'd to break a twofold truth ;Hers , by thy beauty tempting her to thee , Thine , by ...
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CIV To me , fair friend , you never can be old , For as you were when first your eye I ey'd , Such seems your beauty still . Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers ' pride , Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn ...
CIV To me , fair friend , you never can be old , For as you were when first your eye I ey'd , Such seems your beauty still . Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers ' pride , Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn ...
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... it bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir , And beauty slander'd with a bastard's shame ... false borrow'd face , Sweet beauty hath no name , no holy bower , But is profan'd , if not lives in disgrace .
... it bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir , And beauty slander'd with a bastard's shame ... false borrow'd face , Sweet beauty hath no name , no holy bower , But is profan'd , if not lives in disgrace .
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| Title | The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Spencer to Crabbe Oxford Paperbacks Volume 1 of The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, Oxford library of English poetry |
| Author | Oxford library of English poetry |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192827987, 9780192827982 |
| Length | 659 pages |
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