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... written to be sung , the best would have gained little from an accompaniment ; and they may , indeed , have had none , for their colloquial rhythms seem to demand the speaking , rather than the singing , voice , and they made exquisite ...
... written to be sung , the best would have gained little from an accompaniment ; and they may , indeed , have had none , for their colloquial rhythms seem to demand the speaking , rather than the singing , voice , and they made exquisite ...
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... writing of Astrophel and Stella , though some of the earlier sonnets may have been written before 1581 , and though Sidney may have expanded , as he certainly revised , the sequence after his own marriage in September 1583. The sonnets ...
... writing of Astrophel and Stella , though some of the earlier sonnets may have been written before 1581 , and though Sidney may have expanded , as he certainly revised , the sequence after his own marriage in September 1583. The sonnets ...
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... written fifteen or even twenty years before.1 Finally came Greville's Calica ( 1633 ) , much of which had been written nearly half a century before , and Donne's Divine Sonnets ( 1633 , 1635 ) ; and between these two dates there came ...
... written fifteen or even twenty years before.1 Finally came Greville's Calica ( 1633 ) , much of which had been written nearly half a century before , and Donne's Divine Sonnets ( 1633 , 1635 ) ; and between these two dates there came ...
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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