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... clear The bitter fruit of false concupiscence ; How Jewry bought Uriah's death full dear . In princes ' hearts God's scourge imprinted deep , Ought them awake out of their sinful sleep . EARL OF SURREY 15167-1547 VI AN EPITAPH . NORFOLK ...
... clear The bitter fruit of false concupiscence ; How Jewry bought Uriah's death full dear . In princes ' hearts God's scourge imprinted deep , Ought them awake out of their sinful sleep . EARL OF SURREY 15167-1547 VI AN EPITAPH . NORFOLK ...
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... look on me at last , With lovely light to clear my cloudy grief . Till then I wander careful , comfortless , In secret sorrow and sad pensiveness . EDMUND SPENSER 1552 ? -1599 EDMUND SPENSER 1552 ? -1599 XIV ( 37 ) WHAT English Sonnets 7.
... look on me at last , With lovely light to clear my cloudy grief . Till then I wander careful , comfortless , In secret sorrow and sad pensiveness . EDMUND SPENSER 1552 ? -1599 EDMUND SPENSER 1552 ? -1599 XIV ( 37 ) WHAT English Sonnets 7.
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... clear might read the art and wisdom rare : Find out his power which wildest powers doth tame , His providence extending everywhere , His justice which proud rebels doth not spare , In every page , no , period of the same . But silly we ...
... clear might read the art and wisdom rare : Find out his power which wildest powers doth tame , His providence extending everywhere , His justice which proud rebels doth not spare , In every page , no , period of the same . But silly we ...
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... clear , To outward view , of blemish or of spot , Bereft of light , their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun , or moon , or star , throughout the year , Or man , or woman . Yet I argue not Against ...
... clear , To outward view , of blemish or of spot , Bereft of light , their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun , or moon , or star , throughout the year , Or man , or woman . Yet I argue not Against ...
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... clear current of a private life ; See the wide public stream , by tempests tost , Of every changing wind the sport or slave , Soiled with corruption , vexed with party strife , Covered with wrecks of peace and honour lost . THOMAS ...
... clear current of a private life ; See the wide public stream , by tempests tost , Of every changing wind the sport or slave , Soiled with corruption , vexed with party strife , Covered with wrecks of peace and honour lost . THOMAS ...
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Page 50 - 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 211 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints.
Page 125 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 34 - 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 49 - 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 140 - 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 32 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII 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 28 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 139 - mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean.
Page 70 - O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.