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... winds blow and the seas flow ? Hey nonny no ! Anonymous . 13 Tell me where is fancy bred , Or in the heart or in the head ? How begot , how nourished ? Reply , reply . It is engendered in the eyes , With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In ...
... winds blow and the seas flow ? Hey nonny no ! Anonymous . 13 Tell me where is fancy bred , Or in the heart or in the head ? How begot , how nourished ? Reply , reply . It is engendered in the eyes , With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In ...
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... wind or silver rain ; Into this prince gently , oh , gently slide , And kiss him into slumbers like a bride . 1 Fletcher . 34 Art thou poor , yet hast thou golden slumbers ? O , sweet content ! Art thou rich , yet is thy mind perplexed ...
... wind or silver rain ; Into this prince gently , oh , gently slide , And kiss him into slumbers like a bride . 1 Fletcher . 34 Art thou poor , yet hast thou golden slumbers ? O , sweet content ! Art thou rich , yet is thy mind perplexed ...
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... wind The winter storms hath tamed , And Nature in each kind The kind heat hath inflamed : The forward buds so sweetly breathe Out of their earthy bowers , That heaven , which views their pomp beneath , Would fain be decked with flowers ...
... wind The winter storms hath tamed , And Nature in each kind The kind heat hath inflamed : The forward buds so sweetly breathe Out of their earthy bowers , That heaven , which views their pomp beneath , Would fain be decked with flowers ...
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... home in pail , When blood is nipped and ways be foul , Then nightly sings the staring owl , Tu - whit ; Tu - who , a merry note , While greasy Joan doth keel the pot . When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns 35 51.
... home in pail , When blood is nipped and ways be foul , Then nightly sings the staring owl , Tu - whit ; Tu - who , a merry note , While greasy Joan doth keel the pot . When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns 35 51.
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Arthur Symons. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw , When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl , Then nightly sings the staring owl , Tu ...
Arthur Symons. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw , When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl , Then nightly sings the staring owl , Tu ...
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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...