The book of sonnets, ed by A.M. WoodfordA Montagu Woodford 1841 |
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A Montagu Woodford. EVER my hap is slack and slow in coming , Desire increasing , aye my hope uncertaine With doubtful love , that but increaseth pain ; For , tiger like , so swift it is in parting . Alas ! the snow black shall it be and ...
A Montagu Woodford. EVER my hap is slack and slow in coming , Desire increasing , aye my hope uncertaine With doubtful love , that but increaseth pain ; For , tiger like , so swift it is in parting . Alas ! the snow black shall it be and ...
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... desire ; And I of tears , and they be full of fountaines : Under craggy rocks they have barren plaines ; Harde thoughtes in me my woful minde doth tire : Small fruit and many leaves their tops do attire , With small effect great trust ...
... desire ; And I of tears , and they be full of fountaines : Under craggy rocks they have barren plaines ; Harde thoughtes in me my woful minde doth tire : Small fruit and many leaves their tops do attire , With small effect great trust ...
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... desire , If honeste will kindled in gentle fire , If long error in a blinde maze chained , If in my visage each thought distained , Or if my sparkling voice , lower , or higher , Which feare and shame so wofully doth tire ; If pale ...
... desire , If honeste will kindled in gentle fire , If long error in a blinde maze chained , If in my visage each thought distained , Or if my sparkling voice , lower , or higher , Which feare and shame so wofully doth tire ; If pale ...
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... desire , With my dear Mistress that may not follow ; Whereby mine absence turneth me to sorrow . A LOVER DESCRIBETH HIS RESTLESS STATE . THE flaming sighs that boil within my breaste , Sometime breake forthe , and they can well declare ...
... desire , With my dear Mistress that may not follow ; Whereby mine absence turneth me to sorrow . A LOVER DESCRIBETH HIS RESTLESS STATE . THE flaming sighs that boil within my breaste , Sometime breake forthe , and they can well declare ...
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... desire , With shame - faced cloke to shadow and restraine , Her smiling grace converteth straight to ire . And coward Love then to the heart apace Taketh his flighte ; whereas he lurks , and plains His purpose lost , and dare not shew ...
... desire , With shame - faced cloke to shadow and restraine , Her smiling grace converteth straight to ire . And coward Love then to the heart apace Taketh his flighte ; whereas he lurks , and plains His purpose lost , and dare not shew ...
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Page 61 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Page 129 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 66 - But then begins a journey in my head, To work my mind, when body's work's expired: For then my thoughts, from far where I abide, Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee...
Page 56 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah ! yet...
Page 62 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 56 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour, which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses.
Page 61 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 58 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 145 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain...
Page 58 - When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night, When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white, When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd...