Chaucer to BurnsH. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1913 |
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... soft ivorie ; There fall those saphir - coloured brookes , Which conduit - like with curious crookes Sweet ilands make in that sweet land . As for the fingers of the hand , The bloudy shafts of Cupid's warre , With amatists they headed ...
... soft ivorie ; There fall those saphir - coloured brookes , Which conduit - like with curious crookes Sweet ilands make in that sweet land . As for the fingers of the hand , The bloudy shafts of Cupid's warre , With amatists they headed ...
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... soft ; So goodly all agree , with sweet consent , To this dayes merriment . Ah ! my deere Love , why doe ye sleep thus long , When meeter were that ye should now awake , T'awayt the comming of your joyous Make , And hearken to the birds ...
... soft ; So goodly all agree , with sweet consent , To this dayes merriment . Ah ! my deere Love , why doe ye sleep thus long , When meeter were that ye should now awake , T'awayt the comming of your joyous Make , And hearken to the birds ...
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... notes unto the voice attempered sweet ; Th ' angelicall soft trembling voyces made To th ' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver - sounding instruments did meet With the base 38 FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH VERSE.
... notes unto the voice attempered sweet ; Th ' angelicall soft trembling voyces made To th ' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver - sounding instruments did meet With the base 38 FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH VERSE.
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... soft , now loud , unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all , 10 Absolute music ! And it is not as if here and there some solitary islet of beauty emerged . A numerous company like to it are rising everywhere ...
... soft , now loud , unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all , 10 Absolute music ! And it is not as if here and there some solitary islet of beauty emerged . A numerous company like to it are rising everywhere ...
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... soft chime had stroked the air , And though the sound were parted thence , Still left an echo in the sense . But that a mind so rapt , so high , So swift , so pure , should yet apply Itself to us , and come so nigh Earth's grossness ...
... soft chime had stroked the air , And though the sound were parted thence , Still left an echo in the sense . But that a mind so rapt , so high , So swift , so pure , should yet apply Itself to us , and come so nigh Earth's grossness ...
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Página 50 - 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...
Página 161 - Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Página 234 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 115 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Página 178 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Página 200 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet. And throws the melons at our feet; But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice...
Página 110 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest, may know At first sight if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul, when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
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Página 299 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and God has given my share, — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.