Love Songs of English Poets, 1500-1800W. Heinemann, 1892 - 277 pages |
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... poems in his collection naturally take their places in these pages . I must also add my humble testimony to the services rendered to poetry by that indefatigable seeker after the good things contained in our old song - books , Mr. A. H. ...
... poems in his collection naturally take their places in these pages . I must also add my humble testimony to the services rendered to poetry by that indefatigable seeker after the good things contained in our old song - books , Mr. A. H. ...
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... poems that are of great poetical merit have had to be omitted , because too highly flavoured , too boisterous in movement , or too direct in senti- ment . Also , as curtailment was necessary for reasons of space , many of the minor ...
... poems that are of great poetical merit have had to be omitted , because too highly flavoured , too boisterous in movement , or too direct in senti- ment . Also , as curtailment was necessary for reasons of space , many of the minor ...
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... poems . But the more serious allegation implied is discountenanced by the fact that not more than a month or two after the condemnation , in January 1536 , of Anne Boleyn for high treason , Wyatt was knighted , in July appointed to a ...
... poems . But the more serious allegation implied is discountenanced by the fact that not more than a month or two after the condemnation , in January 1536 , of Anne Boleyn for high treason , Wyatt was knighted , in July appointed to a ...
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... poem , ' A Praise of his Love , ' Warton singles it out for especial commendation for the correctness of its versification , the polish of its language , and its musical modulation . Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine FROM ...
... poem , ' A Praise of his Love , ' Warton singles it out for especial commendation for the correctness of its versification , the polish of its language , and its musical modulation . Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine FROM ...
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... poems of Surrey and Wyatt were first printed . He contributed to the collection , and two of his pieces were in blank verse . The dates of his birth and death are given as 1519 and 1563 , but there is no proof of the accuracy of either ...
... poems of Surrey and Wyatt were first printed . He contributed to the collection , and two of his pieces were in blank verse . The dates of his birth and death are given as 1519 and 1563 , but there is no proof of the accuracy of either ...
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beauty behold Ben Jonson blest bliss blush born in London bosom breast breath bright Charles Charles Lamb Charles Whitehead charms cheek Cupid dear death delight died doth dream earth Edmund Gosse English eyes fair Falero Felicia Dorothea Hemans flame flowers fond gaze gentle Giles Fletcher give grace hath heart heaven Herrick John Dryden Johnson King kiss Lady Landor lero Lest light lips live look Lord Byron love thee-I love Love's lover maid maidens married Mary ne'er never night o'er pain passion play poems poet poetry pretty Richard Savage rose Samuel Taylor Coleridge sh'as left Shakespeare Shelley shine sigh silent sing smile soft song Sonnet soul sweet tears tell thee-I love thee thine Thomas Thomas Carew thou art thought twas verse vows Walter Savage Landor weep whilst William William Congreve William Wordsworth Woman Wordsworth wrote
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Page 266 - BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art,— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 69 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 57 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 226 - All impulses of soul and sense had thrilled my guileless Genevieve; The music, and the doleful tale, the rich and balmy eve ; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, an undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, subdued and cherished long. She wept with pity and delight, she blushed with love and virgin shame ; And like the murmur of a dream, I heard her breathe my name.
Page 143 - Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be ! Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee.
Page 141 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For...
Page 224 - With downcast eyes and modest grace For well she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face. I told her of the Knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand ; And that for ten long years he wooed The Lady of the Land.
Page 217 - I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. Tis past, that melancholy dream! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more. Among thy mountains did I feel The joy of my desire; And she I cherished turned her wheel Beside an English fire. Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed The bowers where Lucy played; And thine too is the last green field That Lucy's eyes surveyed.
Page 148 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Page 55 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.