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... dear To me as blood to life and spirit ; near , Nay , thou more near than kindred , friend , man , wife , Male to the female , soul to body ; life To quick action , or the warm soft side Of the resigning , yet resisting bride . The kiss ...
... dear To me as blood to life and spirit ; near , Nay , thou more near than kindred , friend , man , wife , Male to the female , soul to body ; life To quick action , or the warm soft side Of the resigning , yet resisting bride . The kiss ...
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... dear spouse , I disavow , Ne'er may prophetic Daphne crown my brow . Herrick . 27 On Himself I fear no earthly powers , But care for crowns of flowers ; And love to have my beard With wine and oil besmeared . This day I'll drown all ...
... dear spouse , I disavow , Ne'er may prophetic Daphne crown my brow . Herrick . 27 On Himself I fear no earthly powers , But care for crowns of flowers ; And love to have my beard With wine and oil besmeared . This day I'll drown all ...
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... Dear , why should command you me to my rest , When now the night doth summon all to sleep ? Methinks this time becometh lovers best ; Night was ordained , together friends to keep . How happy are all other living things , Which though ...
... Dear , why should command you me to my rest , When now the night doth summon all to sleep ? Methinks this time becometh lovers best ; Night was ordained , together friends to keep . How happy are all other living things , Which though ...
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... dear delight . Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue , Because I would not dull you with my song . 54 Shakespeare . How like a winter hath my absence been From thee , the pleasure of the fleeting year ! What freezings have I felt ...
... dear delight . Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue , Because I would not dull you with my song . 54 Shakespeare . How like a winter hath my absence been From thee , the pleasure of the fleeting year ! What freezings have I felt ...
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... dear , even as the golden ball That Venus got , such are thy goodly eyes ; When cherries ' juice is jumbled therewithal , Thy breath is like the steam of apple- pies . Thy lips resemble two cucumbers fair ; Thy teeth like to the tusks ...
... dear , even as the golden ball That Venus got , such are thy goodly eyes ; When cherries ' juice is jumbled therewithal , Thy breath is like the steam of apple- pies . Thy lips resemble two cucumbers fair ; Thy teeth like to the tusks ...
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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...