The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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Arthur Gorges aspyre Astrophel Astrophill beames beasts beautie behold bowre brave brest bright celestiall Colin cruell Cynthia dayes deare death delight dight doest dolefull doth dreadfull earth earthly eccho ring emongst eternall eyes faire farre fayre flowre foorth Foxe fyre gentle glorie goodly grace griefe grone happie hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe honour immortall ioyous John Spenser Ladie lament light live Lord LYCON lyke mightie mourne Muse mynd never noble nought Nymphes paine peerlesse price plaint powre praise prayses pride quoth rest Rome sacred scorne seeke seem'd selfe shee shepheards shew shyning sight sing Sir Philip Sidney Sith skie song sorrow Spenser spide spoyle spright sunne sweet teares Theana thee thereof theyr things thou thought unto vaine vertue weene Whilest Whilome wight wize wont woods wretched
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Page 342 - And that Thy love we weighing worthily, May likewise love Thee for the same again: And for Thy sake that all like dear did'st buy, With love may one another entertain.
Page 373 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty, That suffers not one looke to glaunce awry, Which may let in a little thought unsownd.
Page 127 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent...
Page 297 - Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow, which doth the top of Pindus strew...
Page 300 - At length they all to mery London came, To mery London, my most kyndly Nurse, That to me gave this Lifes first native sourse...
Page 374 - 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.
Page 100 - For now a few have all, and all have nought, Yet all be brethren ylike dearly bought. There is no right in this partition, Ne was it so by institution Ordained first, ne by the law of Nature, But that she gave like blessing to each creture, As well of worldly livelode as of life, That there might be no difference nor strife, Nor ought cald mine or thine: thrice happie then Was the condition of mortall men.
Page 298 - That they appeare, through lillies plenteous store, Like a brydes chamber flore. Two of those nymphes, meane while, two garlands bound Of freshest flowres which in that mead they found, The which presenting all in trim array, Their...
Page 415 - Him first to love that was so dearely bought, And next our brethren, to his image wrought. Him first to love great right and reason is, Who first to us our life and being gave, And after, when we fared had amisse, Us wretches from the second death did save...
Page 372 - Almighties view; Of her ye virgins learne obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces: Bring her up to th...