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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 ...
Page 139
... pleasure give ? Pleasures only shadows be , Cast by bodies we conceive , And are made the things we deem In those figures which they seem . But these pleasures vanish fast Which by shadows are express'd : Pleasures are not , if they ...
... pleasure give ? Pleasures only shadows be , Cast by bodies we conceive , And are made the things we deem In those figures which they seem . But these pleasures vanish fast Which by shadows are express'd : Pleasures are not , if they ...
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... pleasure Lives in measure , Which , if men forsake , Blinded they into folly run , and grief for pleasure take . But my vain hopes , proud of their new - taught flight , Enamour'd , sought to woo the sun's fair light , Whose rich ...
... pleasure Lives in measure , Which , if men forsake , Blinded they into folly run , and grief for pleasure take . But my vain hopes , proud of their new - taught flight , Enamour'd , sought to woo the sun's fair light , Whose rich ...
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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