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Page 13
... virgins , first fruits of the bed , Soft speech , smooth touch , the lips , the maidenhead : These and a thousand sweets could never be So near or dear as thou wast once to me . O thou , the drink of gods and angels ! 13 24.
... virgins , first fruits of the bed , Soft speech , smooth touch , the lips , the maidenhead : These and a thousand sweets could never be So near or dear as thou wast once to me . O thou , the drink of gods and angels ! 13 24.
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... 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 fire , active to do What thy commanding soul shall put it to ; And till I turn ...
... 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 fire , active to do What thy commanding soul shall put it to ; And till I turn ...
Page 27
... once your prime You may for ever tarry . Herrick . 42 A Description of the Spring And now all nature seemed in love ; The lusty sap began to move ; New juice did stir the embracing vines , And birds had drawn their valentines ; The ...
... once your prime You may for ever tarry . Herrick . 42 A Description of the Spring And now all nature seemed in love ; The lusty sap began to move ; New juice did stir the embracing vines , And birds had drawn their valentines ; The ...
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... once we go a - Maying . Come , my Corinna , come ; and , coming , mark How each field turns a street , each street a park Made green , and trimmed with trees : see how Devotion gives each house a bough Made Or branch : each porch , each ...
... once we go a - Maying . Come , my Corinna , come ; and , coming , mark How each field turns a street , each street a park Made green , and trimmed with trees : see how Devotion gives each house a bough Made Or branch : each porch , each ...
Page 34
... Once lost , can ne'er be found again , So when or you or I are made A fable , song , or fleeting shade , All love , all liking , all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night . Then while time serves , and we are but decaying , Come ...
... Once lost , can ne'er be found again , So when or you or I are made A fable , song , or fleeting shade , All love , all liking , all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night . Then while time serves , and we are but decaying , Come ...
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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