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Arthur Symons. Sweet Suffolk owl , so trimly dight With feathers like a lady bright , Thou sing'st alone , sitting by night , Te whit , te whoo ! Thy note , that forth so freely rolls , With shrill command the mouse controls , And sings ...
Arthur Symons. Sweet Suffolk owl , so trimly dight With feathers like a lady bright , Thou sing'st alone , sitting by night , Te whit , te whoo ! Thy note , that forth so freely rolls , With shrill command the mouse controls , And sings ...
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... bright eastern hill , And with soft steps beguiles Them that lie slumbering still ! The music - loving birds are come From cliffs and rocks unknown To see the trees and briars bloom That late were overflown . What Saturn did destroy ...
... bright eastern hill , And with soft steps beguiles Them that lie slumbering still ! The music - loving birds are come From cliffs and rocks unknown To see the trees and briars bloom That late were overflown . What Saturn did destroy ...
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... bright Willy . ( Hey - ho , the sunbeam ! ) Perigot . Glanceth from Phoebus ' face forthright , Willy . So love into my heart did stream . Perigot . Or as the thunder cleaves the clouds , ( Hey - ho , the thunder ! ) Willy . Perigot ...
... bright Willy . ( Hey - ho , the sunbeam ! ) Perigot . Glanceth from Phoebus ' face forthright , Willy . So love into my heart did stream . Perigot . Or as the thunder cleaves the clouds , ( Hey - ho , the thunder ! ) Willy . Perigot ...
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... bright beauty's hooks To entrap my gazing looks . Love I did , and ' gan to woo , Pray and sigh ; all would not do : Women , when they take the toy , Covet to be counted coy . Coy she was , and I ' gan court ; She thought love was but a ...
... bright beauty's hooks To entrap my gazing looks . Love I did , and ' gan to woo , Pray and sigh ; all would not do : Women , when they take the toy , Covet to be counted coy . Coy she was , and I ' gan court ; She thought love was but a ...
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... bright as burnished gold . One fate hath both , both equal grace ; The buried , and the burying - place . Not Virgil's gnat , to whom the spring All flowers sent to's burying ; Not Martial's bee , which in a bead Of amber quick was ...
... bright as burnished gold . One fate hath both , both equal grace ; The buried , and the burying - place . Not Virgil's gnat , to whom the spring All flowers sent to's burying ; Not Martial's bee , which in a bead Of amber quick was ...
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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 lives 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