Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1788 - English poetry |
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... spring flower'd , and after hasted Thy summer proud , with daffadillies dight , And now is come thy winter's stormy state , Thy mantle marr'd wherein thou maskedst late . Such rage as winter reigneth in my heart , My life - blood ...
... spring flower'd , and after hasted Thy summer proud , with daffadillies dight , And now is come thy winter's stormy state , Thy mantle marr'd wherein thou maskedst late . Such rage as winter reigneth in my heart , My life - blood ...
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... spring is come at once : Tho gin you , fond Flies ! the cold to scorn , And , crowing in pipes made of green corn , You thinken to be lords of the year ; But eft when ye count you freed from fear , Comes the breme Winter with chamfred ...
... spring is come at once : Tho gin you , fond Flies ! the cold to scorn , And , crowing in pipes made of green corn , You thinken to be lords of the year ; But eft when ye count you freed from fear , Comes the breme Winter with chamfred ...
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... spring , to discourse of love , describ'd here as a person . One of them relates a story of his having discover'd him lately hid in a bush , and of his being wounded by him . WILLY . THOMALIN . WILLY . THOMALIN , why sitten we so , As ...
... spring , to discourse of love , describ'd here as a person . One of them relates a story of his having discover'd him lately hid in a bush , and of his being wounded by him . WILLY . THOMALIN . WILLY . THOMALIN , why sitten we so , As ...
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... spring he lay , And tuned it unto the water's fall . " Ye dainty Nymphs , that in this blessed brook Do bathe your brest , " Forsake your watry bowers , and hither look " At my request . " And eke you Virgins that on Parnasse dwell ...
... spring he lay , And tuned it unto the water's fall . " Ye dainty Nymphs , that in this blessed brook Do bathe your brest , " Forsake your watry bowers , and hither look " At my request . " And eke you Virgins that on Parnasse dwell ...
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... spring Did shroud in shady leaves from sunny rays , Frame to thy song their cheerfull cheriping , Or hold their peace , for shame of thy sweet lays . I saw Calliope with Muses moe , Soon as thy oaten pipe began to sound , Their ivory ...
... spring Did shroud in shady leaves from sunny rays , Frame to thy song their cheerfull cheriping , Or hold their peace , for shame of thy sweet lays . I saw Calliope with Muses moe , Soon as thy oaten pipe began to sound , Their ivory ...
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Page 30 - Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day, Didst make thy triumph over death and sin; And, having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win...
Page 7 - For though he colours could devize at will, And eke his learned hand at pleasure guide, Least, trembling, it his workmanship should spill*, Yet many wondrous things there are beside: The sweet eye-glaunces, that like arrowes glide, The charming smiles, that rob sence from the hart, The lovely pleasance, and the lofty pride, Cannot expressed be by any art. A greater craftesmans hand thereto doth neede, That can expresse the life of things indeed.
Page 207 - I gained gifts and goodly grace Of that great lord, which therein wont to dwell, Whose want too well now feels my friendless case.
Page 215 - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?
Page 218 - ... light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees. But for this time it ill ordained was, To chose the longest day in all the yeare, And shortest night, when longest fitter weare: Yet never day so long, but late would passe.
Page 111 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 206 - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame ! There when they came, whereas those bricky towers The which on Thames...
Page 109 - How vainely then doe ydle wits invent, That beautie is nought else but mixture made Of colours faire, and goodly temp'rament Of pure complexions, that shall quickly fade And passe away, like to a sommers...
Page 30 - I all weary had the chase forsook, The gentle deer returned the self-same way, Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brook: There she, beholding me with milder look, Sought not to fly, but fearless still did bide; Till I in hand her yet half trembling took, And with her own good-will her firmly tied. Strange thing, meseemed, to see a beast so wild, So goodly won, with her own will beguiled.
Page 218 - With Barnaby the bright, From whence declining daily by degrees, He somewhat loseth of his heat and light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees.