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... Bright was the moon , as bright as day , And Venus glister'd in the west , Whose light did lead the ready way , That brought me to my wished rest : Then each of them increas'd their light While I enjoy'd her heavenly sight . Say ...
... Bright was the moon , as bright as day , And Venus glister'd in the west , Whose light did lead the ready way , That brought me to my wished rest : Then each of them increas'd their light While I enjoy'd her heavenly sight . Say ...
Page 75
... Bright shines the sun ; play , beggars , play ! Here's scraps enough to serve to - day . What noise of viols is so sweet As when our merry clappers ring ? What mirth doth want where beggars meet ? A beggar's life is for a king . Eat ...
... Bright shines the sun ; play , beggars , play ! Here's scraps enough to serve to - day . What noise of viols is so sweet As when our merry clappers ring ? What mirth doth want where beggars meet ? A beggar's life is for a king . Eat ...
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... bright . Earth , let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close : Bless us then with wished sight , Goddess excellently bright . Lay thy bow of pearl apart , And ...
... bright . Earth , let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close : Bless us then with wished sight , Goddess excellently bright . Lay thy bow of pearl apart , And ...
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adieu love Anonymous Astrophel and Stella babe beauty beauty's birds bliss breast breath bright CORYDON Cuckoo dear death delight desire dost doth Drayton earth Edmund Spenser Englands Helicon eyes fair faith fancy fear fire flowers George Peele give golden grace green grief hath heart heaven Henry Constable ibid imitation John Donne John Lyly king kiss lady live Lord Love's lovers lullaby merry Michael Drayton mind mistress mourn never night nightingale nonny nought pain Petrarch PHYLLIDA pity play pleasure poems poetry poets praise pretty Queen Ralegh rest Samuel Daniel scorn shalt shepherd shine Sidney's sighs sing Sir Philip Sidney Sir Walter Ralegh sleep smile songs sonnets sorrow soul Spenser spring summer's swain sweet content tears Tell thee thing Thomas Campion Thomas Lodge thou art thought thy bank true Love unto untrue love verse wanton weep William Shakespeare Wyatt youth