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... sight and ne'er return again ! All that I sang still to her praise did tend ; Still she was first , still she my songs did end : Yet she my love and music both doth fly , The music that her echo is and beauty's sympathy . Then let my ...
... sight and ne'er return again ! All that I sang still to her praise did tend ; Still she was first , still she my songs did end : Yet she my love and music both doth fly , The music that her echo is and beauty's sympathy . Then let my ...
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... sight , That wake I think I hold No shadow , but my fair : Myself so to deceive , With long - shut eyes I shun the irksome light . Such pleasure thus I have , Delighting in false gleams , If Death Sleep's brother be , And souls relieved ...
... sight , That wake I think I hold No shadow , but my fair : Myself so to deceive , With long - shut eyes I shun the irksome light . Such pleasure thus I have , Delighting in false gleams , If Death Sleep's brother be , And souls relieved ...
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... 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 well are known ; Whilst as youth doth then enable , Let your seeds 29.
... 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 well are known ; Whilst as youth doth then enable , Let your seeds 29.
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... sights , Sleep's leaden spells remove . This time doth well dispense With lovers ' long discourse ; Much speech hath some defence , Though beauty no remorse . All do not all things well ; Some measures comely tread , Some knotted ...
... sights , Sleep's leaden spells remove . This time doth well dispense With lovers ' long discourse ; Much speech hath some defence , Though beauty no remorse . All do not all things well ; Some measures comely tread , Some knotted ...
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... sight , And never hath her beauty seen , But through a veil of white ; Than roses richer to behold , That trim up lovers ' bowers , The and the marigold , pansy Though Phoebus ' paramours . Gorbo Thou well describ'st the daffodil ; It ...
... sight , And never hath her beauty seen , But through a veil of white ; Than roses richer to behold , That trim up lovers ' bowers , The and the marigold , pansy Though Phoebus ' paramours . Gorbo Thou well describ'st the daffodil ; It ...
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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