The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... hath no tongue , but is all eye . If it could speak as well as spy , This were the worse that it could say : That , being well , I fain would stay , And that I lov'd my heart and honour so , That I would not from her , that had them ...
... hath no tongue , but is all eye . If it could speak as well as spy , This were the worse that it could say : That , being well , I fain would stay , And that I lov'd my heart and honour so , That I would not from her , that had them ...
Page 12
... hath clad the hill and eke the vale : The nightingale with feathers new she sings ; The turtle to her make hath told her tale . Summer is come , for every spray now springs : 12 THE BOOK OF.
... hath clad the hill and eke the vale : The nightingale with feathers new she sings ; The turtle to her make hath told her tale . Summer is come , for every spray now springs : 12 THE BOOK OF.
Page 13
... hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale . The adder all her slough away she slings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey ...
... hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale . The adder all her slough away she slings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale ; The busy bee her honey ...
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... hath sworn Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn : Vow , alack , for youth unmeet ; Youth so apt to pluck a sweet . Do not call it sin in me , That I am forsworn for thee ; Thou for whom Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiope were ; And deny ...
... hath sworn Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn : Vow , alack , for youth unmeet ; Youth so apt to pluck a sweet . Do not call it sin in me , That I am forsworn for thee ; Thou for whom Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiope were ; And deny ...
Page 31
... plucked , we die . *** Yet the lusty spring hath stay'd ; Blushing red and purest white Daintily to love invite Every woman , every maid : 36 . Cherries kissing as they grow , And inviting 31 ELIZABETHAN VERSE 35. ...
... plucked , we die . *** Yet the lusty spring hath stay'd ; Blushing red and purest white Daintily to love invite Every woman , every maid : 36 . Cherries kissing as they grow , And inviting 31 ELIZABETHAN VERSE 35. ...
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Anon Astrophel and Stella beauty bel ami Ben Jonson birds bliss breast breath bright Bullen Campion Corydon Cuckoo dear death delight desire dost doth Dowden earth Elizabethan England's Helicon eyes Faery Queene fair fairy-queen faith fear fire Fletcher flowers glory golden grace green grief hair happy hath heart heaven heavenly Herrick honour Jonson King kiss Lady leave light Line Line 11 lips live livės joy look Lord Love's lovers lullaby Madrigals maids merry mind Muse N'oserez never night nymphs passions pity pleasure poem poets praise pretty Queen Queen Mab roses says Shakespeare shalt shepherd shine sighs sing sleep smile song sonnet sorrow soul Spenser spring stanzas star swain sweet tears tell Tereus thee thine things thou art thought true love unto verse W. W. Greg wanton weep Whilst wind youth