The Golden Pomp: A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to ShirleyArthur Quiller-Couch Methuen, 1895 - 382 pages |
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... rest complains of cares to come . The flowers do fade , the wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields : A honey tongue , a heart of gall , Is fancy's spring but sorrow's fall . Thy gowns , thy shoes , thy beds of roses , Thy cap ...
... rest complains of cares to come . The flowers do fade , the wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields : A honey tongue , a heart of gall , Is fancy's spring but sorrow's fall . Thy gowns , thy shoes , thy beds of roses , Thy cap ...
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... rest , The cottage that affords nor pride nor care , The mean that ' grees with country music best , The sweet consort of mirth and modest fare , 1 Obscured life sets down a type of bliss : A mind content both crown and kingdom is . 1 ...
... rest , The cottage that affords nor pride nor care , The mean that ' grees with country music best , The sweet consort of mirth and modest fare , 1 Obscured life sets down a type of bliss : A mind content both crown and kingdom is . 1 ...
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... rest endear As not to up when chanticleer Speaks the last watch , but with the dawn dost rise To work , but first to sacrifice : Making thy peace with Heaven for some late fault , With holy meat and crackling salt . LX HEIGHO ! chill go ...
... rest endear As not to up when chanticleer Speaks the last watch , but with the dawn dost rise To work , but first to sacrifice : Making thy peace with Heaven for some late fault , With holy meat and crackling salt . LX HEIGHO ! chill go ...
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... rest in heaven . Bring hither the Pink and purple Columbine , With Gillyflowers ; Bring Coronations , and Sops - in - wine Worn of Paramours : 1 Mixed . 2 Together . 3 Sweet . 4 Carnations . SIRENA Strow me the ground with ...
... rest in heaven . Bring hither the Pink and purple Columbine , With Gillyflowers ; Bring Coronations , and Sops - in - wine Worn of Paramours : 1 Mixed . 2 Together . 3 Sweet . 4 Carnations . SIRENA Strow me the ground with ...
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... with their music Along let them bring her . Tagus and Pactolus Are to thee debtor , Nor for their gold to us 1 Pansy . Are they the better : 2 Wall - flower . 3 Iris . 59 Henceforth of all the rest Be thou the River Which.
... with their music Along let them bring her . Tagus and Pactolus Are to thee debtor , Nor for their gold to us 1 Pansy . Are they the better : 2 Wall - flower . 3 Iris . 59 Henceforth of all the rest Be thou the River Which.
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Anon ANTHONY HOPE Author babe Baring Gould beauty birds Book of Airs bright Buckram Campion Corydon Crown 8vo cuckoo dear death delight dost doth E. F. BENSON earth England's Helicon English eyes fair fairy-queen fear flowers GILBERT PARKER GORDON BROWNE grace green Greensleeves grief H. C. BEECHING hath heart heaven heavenly Heigh Herrick honour JOHN KEBLE Jonson king kiss Lady leave light lips live look Lord Love's lovers lullaby Madrigals maid merry MESSRS METHUEN'S LIST mind morn never night nonny pity pleasure poem praise pretty Prisoner of Zenda Queen Raleigh rose Shakespeare shepherd sighs sing sleep smile song sorrow soul spring stanzas story swain tears Tereu thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought true love unto verse volume W. E. HENLEY W. G. COLLINGWOOD wanton weep wilt thou wind winter youth
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Page 277 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 22 - When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight ; The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he :Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 19 - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Page 116 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 144 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 15 - 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.
Page 105 - As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made...
Page 123 - Philomel her voice shall raise ? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...
Page 41 - 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.
Page 109 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ! As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.