A Century of Lyrics, 1550-1650Donald Cameron Whimster |
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... true beginning of the period in lyrical poetry . It consists largely of love lyrics by courtiers like Wyatt and Surrey , who wrote not for publication but for their own pleasure . Their poems were probably handed round among their ...
... true beginning of the period in lyrical poetry . It consists largely of love lyrics by courtiers like Wyatt and Surrey , who wrote not for publication but for their own pleasure . Their poems were probably handed round among their ...
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... true Did share it . Not a flower , not a flower sweet On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend , not a friend greet My poor corpse , where my bones shall be thrown . A thousand thousand sighs to save , Lay me , O where Sad true ...
... true Did share it . Not a flower , not a flower sweet On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend , not a friend greet My poor corpse , where my bones shall be thrown . A thousand thousand sighs to save , Lay me , O where Sad true ...
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... pleads his death , and then we live . Be thou my speaker , taintless pleader , Unblotted lawyer , true proceeder ; Thou movest salvation even for alms , Not with a bribèd lawyer's palms . And this is my eternal plea To him that made [ 58 ]
... pleads his death , and then we live . Be thou my speaker , taintless pleader , Unblotted lawyer , true proceeder ; Thou movest salvation even for alms , Not with a bribèd lawyer's palms . And this is my eternal plea To him that made [ 58 ]
Contents
Nicholas Grimald | 21 |
The Passionate Shepherd to | 35 |
Sigh no more ladies | 41 |
Copyright | |
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ANONYMOUS apace beauty BEN JONSON Book of Airs bright Chidiock Tichborne Coridon Daffodil dainty dance Davenant dead death delight Donne dost doth Earl earth Elizabeth England eyes fair fairies fate fish flocks flowers fool fresh George Herbert give glory GORBO Greensleeves Hark hath hay-cock heart heaven Henry Vaughan hey nonny honour John Donne JOHN FLETCHER JOHN WEBSTER JONSON keep king kiss lady Lord lovers lullaby lute maids merry morning ne'er never night numbers Phillida play pleasure poem poetry praise Puritans Queen reign ROBERT HERRICK rose SAMUEL ROWLEY says shepherds sigh sing Sir Walter Raleigh Sister awake sleep song songbooks Sonnets sorrow soul spring sung sweet content tell thee THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS DEKKER thou hast thou wouldst TOBIAS HUME Tottel's Miscellany tune unto verse weep WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wilt thou forgive winter wondrous words wouldst not love