The Loves and Heroines of the PoetsRichard Henry Stoddard |
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... seen , of late , That gentle creature who my life consumes ? Το you I own , that if she do but smile , My thoughts dissolve as snow before the sun . Hence on my heart such cruel blows arrive That they would seem to threaten me with ...
... seen , of late , That gentle creature who my life consumes ? Το you I own , that if she do but smile , My thoughts dissolve as snow before the sun . Hence on my heart such cruel blows arrive That they would seem to threaten me with ...
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... seen that has unmanned thee thus ? And when I had regained some strength , I said , Ladies , to you I will relate the whole . Whilst I lay pondering on my ebbing life , And saw how brief its tenure and how frail , Love wept within my ...
... seen that has unmanned thee thus ? And when I had regained some strength , I said , Ladies , to you I will relate the whole . Whilst I lay pondering on my ebbing life , And saw how brief its tenure and how frail , Love wept within my ...
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... seen in them before . What I saw in her face seemed to predict the sorrows that threat- ened me . " " They parted , never to meet again , for in the following spring Laura died of the plague . Her death shocked Petrarch , who made a ...
... seen in them before . What I saw in her face seemed to predict the sorrows that threat- ened me . " " They parted , never to meet again , for in the following spring Laura died of the plague . Her death shocked Petrarch , who made a ...
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... seen her , or the rest Who , in past time , won 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 ...
... seen her , or the rest Who , in past time , won 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 ...
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... seen Refulgent , and the world's at morning hours ; And that where Boreas blows , when winter lowers , And the short days reveal a clouded scene ; That bench of stone , where , with a pensive mien , My Laura sits , forgetting beauty's ...
... seen Refulgent , and the world's at morning hours ; And that where Boreas blows , when winter lowers , And the short days reveal a clouded scene ; That bench of stone , where , with a pensive mien , My Laura sits , forgetting beauty's ...
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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...