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... beauty ; and then the praise and delineation of beauty , a Renaissance ecstasy , ending with the later , more sophisticated , delight in " beauty's sweetest dress " . Then we hear the announcement of love , and a more or less ...
... beauty ; and then the praise and delineation of beauty , a Renaissance ecstasy , ending with the later , more sophisticated , delight in " beauty's sweetest dress " . Then we hear the announcement of love , and a more or less ...
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... beauty's Silent music , either other Sweetly gracing . Lovely forms do flow From concent divinely framed ; Heaven is music , and thy beauty's Birth is heavenly . These dull notes we sing Discords need for helps to grace them , Only ...
... beauty's Silent music , either other Sweetly gracing . Lovely forms do flow From concent divinely framed ; Heaven is music , and thy beauty's Birth is heavenly . These dull notes we sing Discords need for helps to grace them , Only ...
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... Beauty , be not thou accused Too justly in this case ! Unkindly if true love be used , ' T will yield thee little grace . Campion . 41 To the Virgins , to make much of Time Gather ye rosebuds while ye may , Old time is still a - flying ...
... Beauty , be not thou accused Too justly in this case ! Unkindly if true love be used , ' T will yield thee little grace . Campion . 41 To the Virgins , to make much of Time Gather ye rosebuds while ye may , Old time is still a - flying ...
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... beauty no remorse . All do not all things well ; Some measures comely tread , Some knotted riddles tell , Some poems smoothly read . The summer hath his joys , And winter his delights ; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys ...
... beauty no remorse . All do not all things well ; Some measures comely tread , Some knotted riddles tell , Some poems smoothly read . The summer hath his joys , And winter his delights ; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys ...
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... beauty seen , But through a veil of white ; Than roses richer to behold , That trim up lovers ' bowers , The pansy and the marigold , Though Phoebus ' paramours . Gorbo Thou well describ'st the daffodil ; It is not full an hour , Since ...
... beauty seen , But through a veil of white ; Than roses richer to behold , That trim up lovers ' bowers , The pansy and the marigold , Though Phoebus ' paramours . Gorbo Thou well describ'st the daffodil ; It is not full an hour , Since ...
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Anonymous Barnabe Barnes beauty beauty's behold Ben Jonson birds breath bright bring Campion Carmela Charon Claia Corydon cuckoo Daffodil dead dear death delight desire Donne dost doth Drayton earth echo ring eyes fair Fairy fairy-queen fear fire flowers fools give Golden slumbers gone grace grief hair hath hear heart heaven Heigh-ho Herrick Hey-ho honour keep King kiss leave light little boy live livës joy look love's lovers lullaby maids merry Mertilla mind ne'er never Nicholas Breton night numbers nymphs Oberon passion Perigot Perilla Philomel Phyllida pleasure poem poor praise pretty Proserpina Queen Queen Mab quoth roses scorn Shakespeare shepherd shine Sidney sighs sight sing sleep smile song sonnets soul spring stay sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thoughts true love unto wanton weep Whilst Willy wilt wind youth
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Page 164 - THRICE toss these oaken ashes in the air, Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair ; And thrice three times tie up this true-love's knot, And murmur soft — ' She will, or she will not.' Go burn these poisonous weeds in yon blue fire, These screech-owl's feathers and this prickling briar ; This cypress gathered at a dead man's grave ; That all thy fears and cares an end may have. Then come, you fairies, dance with...