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... pleasure to a heat ; But if to moisture , let the oil Of roses be your sweat . Not only to yourselves assume These sweets , but let them fly From this to that , and so perfume E'en all the standers by ; As goddess Isis when she went Or ...
... pleasure to a heat ; But if to moisture , let the oil Of roses be your sweat . Not only to yourselves assume These sweets , but let them fly From this to that , and so perfume E'en all the standers by ; As goddess Isis when she went Or ...
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... pleasure thus I have , Delighting in false gleams , If Death Sleep's brother be , And souls relieved of sense have so sweet dreams , That I would wish me thus to dream and die . Drummond . 32 Care - charmer Sleep , son of the sable ...
... pleasure thus I have , Delighting in false gleams , If Death Sleep's brother be , And souls relieved of sense have so sweet dreams , That I would wish me thus to dream and die . Drummond . 32 Care - charmer Sleep , son of the sable ...
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... pleasure , Youthful lordings , of delight ; Whilst occasion gives you seizure , Feed your fancies and your sight : After death , when you are gone , Joy and pleasure is there none . Here on earth is nothing stable , Fortune's changes ...
... pleasure , Youthful lordings , of delight ; Whilst occasion gives you seizure , Feed your fancies and your sight : After death , when you are gone , Joy and pleasure is there none . Here on earth is nothing stable , Fortune's changes ...
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... pleasure is there none Feast it freely with your lovers , Blithe and wanton sports do fade , Whilst that lovely Cupid hovers Round about this lovely shade : Sport it freely one to one , After death is pleasure none . Now the pleasant ...
... pleasure is there none Feast it freely with your lovers , Blithe and wanton sports do fade , Whilst that lovely Cupid hovers Round about this lovely shade : Sport it freely one to one , After death is pleasure none . Now the pleasant ...
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... pleasure of the fleeting year ! What freezings have I felt , what dark days seen ! What old December's bareness ... pleasures wait on thee , And , thou away , the very birds are mute ; Or , if they sing , ' t is with so dull a cheer That ...
... pleasure of the fleeting year ! What freezings have I felt , what dark days seen ! What old December's bareness ... pleasures wait on thee , And , thou away , the very birds are mute ; Or , if they sing , ' t is with so dull a cheer That ...
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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