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... unto these yellow sands , And then take hands : Courtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist , Foot it featly here and there ; And , sweet sprites , the burthen bear . Hark , hark ! Bow - wow . The watch - dogs bark : Bow ...
... unto these yellow sands , And then take hands : Courtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist , Foot it featly here and there ; And , sweet sprites , the burthen bear . Hark , hark ! Bow - wow . The watch - dogs bark : Bow ...
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... unto my vows ; Ay ! far more welcome than the happy soil The sea - scourged merchant , after all his toil , Salutes with tears of joy ; when fires betray The smoky chimneys of his Ithaca . Where hast thou been so long from my embraces , 15.
... unto my vows ; Ay ! far more welcome than the happy soil The sea - scourged merchant , after all his toil , Salutes with tears of joy ; when fires betray The smoky chimneys of his Ithaca . Where hast thou been so long from my embraces , 15.
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... unto me As Cleopatra came to Antony , my blood When her high carriage did at once present To the triumvir love and wonderment . Swell up my nerves with spirit ; let Run through my veins like to a hasty flood . Fill each part full of ...
... unto me As Cleopatra came to Antony , my blood When her high carriage did at once present To the triumvir love and wonderment . Swell up my nerves with spirit ; let Run through my veins like to a hasty flood . Fill each part full of ...
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... unto his love at night O thou that art so courteous else to all , Why shouldst thou , Night , abuse me only thus , That every creature to his kind dost call , And yet ' t is thou dost only sever us ? Well could I wish it would be ever ...
... unto his love at night O thou that art so courteous else to all , Why shouldst thou , Night , abuse me only thus , That every creature to his kind dost call , And yet ' t is thou dost only sever us ? Well could I wish it would be ever ...
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... unto my true love say , Sweet Peg , thou shalt be my Summer's Queen . Now the nightingale , the pretty nightingale , The sweetest singer in all the forest quire , Entreats thee , sweet Peggy , to hear thy true love's tale : Lo , yonder ...
... unto my true love say , Sweet Peg , thou shalt be my Summer's Queen . Now the nightingale , the pretty nightingale , The sweetest singer in all the forest quire , Entreats thee , sweet Peggy , to hear thy true love's tale : Lo , yonder ...
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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...