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Ye gentle Birdes , the worlds faire ornament , And heauens glorie , whom this happie hower Doth leade vnto your louers blisfull bower , loy may you haue and gentle hearts content Of your loues couplement : And let faire Venus , that is ...
Ye gentle Birdes , the worlds faire ornament , And heauens glorie , whom this happie hower Doth leade vnto your louers blisfull bower , loy may you haue and gentle hearts content Of your loues couplement : And let faire Venus , that is ...
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The savory pulp they chew , and in the rind Still as they thirsted scoop the brimming stream ; Nor gentle purpose , nor endearing smiles Wanted , nor youthful dalliance , as beseems Fair couple linked in happy nuptial league , Alone as ...
The savory pulp they chew , and in the rind Still as they thirsted scoop the brimming stream ; Nor gentle purpose , nor endearing smiles Wanted , nor youthful dalliance , as beseems Fair couple linked in happy nuptial league , Alone as ...
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Go , just , as they , their blameless manners traced Then to my ear transmit some gentle song Of those whose lives are yet sincere and plain , Their bounded walks the rugged cliffs along , And all their prospect but the wintry main .
Go , just , as they , their blameless manners traced Then to my ear transmit some gentle song Of those whose lives are yet sincere and plain , Their bounded walks the rugged cliffs along , And all their prospect but the wintry main .
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Contents
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
GEORGE CHAPMAN 15601634 | 54 |
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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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