The Loves and Heroines of the PoetsRichard Henry Stoddard |
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... honour in this art , A thousand years had but the meaner part Shown of the beauty which o'ercame my breast . But Simon sure , in Paradise the blest , Whence came this noble lady of my heart , Saw her , and took this wondrous counterpart ...
... honour in this art , A thousand years had but the meaner part Shown of the beauty which o'ercame my breast . But Simon sure , in Paradise the blest , Whence came this noble lady of my heart , Saw her , and took this wondrous counterpart ...
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... thoughts , like vestal fires , Dispersed the clouds of sense from every mind , And kindled honour , and divine desires . WILDE . It was too much for us to merit long ; 30 LOVES AND HEROINES . "Ah me! it is a cruel destiny"
... thoughts , like vestal fires , Dispersed the clouds of sense from every mind , And kindled honour , and divine desires . WILDE . It was too much for us to merit long ; 30 LOVES AND HEROINES . "Ah me! it is a cruel destiny"
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... honour to Queen Katharine , and as they were both about the same age , with the same taste for music and poetry , it was natural that he should admire her , and write verses to her . That she admired him and his verses , even in her ...
... honour to Queen Katharine , and as they were both about the same age , with the same taste for music and poetry , it was natural that he should admire her , and write verses to her . That she admired him and his verses , even in her ...
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... honour to preserve . A PRAISE OF HIS LADY . WHEREIN HE REPROVETH THEM THAT COMPARE THEIR LADIES WITH HIS . Give place , ye lovers , here before That spent your boasts and brags in vain ; My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours ...
... honour to preserve . A PRAISE OF HIS LADY . WHEREIN HE REPROVETH THEM THAT COMPARE THEIR LADIES WITH HIS . Give place , ye lovers , here before That spent your boasts and brags in vain ; My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours ...
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... honour her that scorns to yield relief . [ " The Phoenix Nest . " ] Now I find thy looks were feignéd , Quickly lost and quickly gainéd ; Soft thy skin , like wool of wethers , Heart unstable , light as feathers : Tongue untrusty ...
... honour her that scorns to yield relief . [ " The Phoenix Nest . " ] Now I find thy looks were feignéd , Quickly lost and quickly gainéd ; Soft thy skin , like wool of wethers , Heart unstable , light as feathers : Tongue untrusty ...
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Anne Boleyn Anthony à Wood behold birds blush breast breath bright CASTARA chaste cheeks cruel Cupid dear death delight desire disdain Donne dost doth Duke England's Helicon face Falero favour fear Ferrara fire flame flowers give glory golden grace grief hair happy hast hath hear heaven honour hope JOHN DONNE kiss lady Laura leave Leonora lero light lips live look Lord love thee Love's lover maid marriage married MICHAEL DRAYTON mind mistress morning ne'er never night nymph pain passion Petrarch Phillis pity poems poet praise pride Queen RAPE OF LUCRECE rose SAMUEL DANIEL say nay scorn shepherd shine sighs sight sing smile SONG sonnets sorrow soul spring Stella Surrey sweet Swift Tasso tears tell thine eyes thought thy beauty thy heart Tottel's Miscellany true unto Urbino verse weep Whilst wind youth
Popular passages
Page 351 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 371 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 346 - She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face.
Page 336 - Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary ! For, could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary ! Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign ; Yet gently prest, press gently mine, My Mary!
Page 95 - Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 324 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air : There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain...
Page 223 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 322 - The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!
Page 222 - 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.
Page 170 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...