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... poor Menaphon lay close , and resting them under a bush , the old man did nothing but send out sighs , and the woman ceased not from streaming forth rivulets of tears , hung on her cheeks like the drops of pearled dew upon the riches of ...
... poor Menaphon lay close , and resting them under a bush , the old man did nothing but send out sighs , and the woman ceased not from streaming forth rivulets of tears , hung on her cheeks like the drops of pearled dew upon the riches of ...
Page 146
... poor , though much they have , And I am rich with little store . They poor , I rich ; they beg , I give ; They lack , I leave ; they pine , I live . I laugh not at another's loss ; I grudge not at another's gain ; No worldly waves my ...
... poor , though much they have , And I am rich with little store . They poor , I rich ; they beg , I give ; They lack , I leave ; they pine , I live . I laugh not at another's loss ; I grudge not at another's gain ; No worldly waves my ...
Page 187
... poor bird , as all forlorn , Lean'd her breast uptil a thorn , And there sung the dolefull'st ditty , That to hear it was great pity . Fie , fie , fie , now would she cry ; Tereu , tereu , by and by : That to hear her so complain Scarce ...
... poor bird , as all forlorn , Lean'd her breast uptil a thorn , And there sung the dolefull'st ditty , That to hear it was great pity . Fie , fie , fie , now would she cry ; Tereu , tereu , by and by : That to hear her so complain Scarce ...
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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