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... never be poor as the fairies are , and never as rich ; . . . never as young and never as old . ' Surely the chief appeal of this popular piece lies in the idea . It sets forth a defini- tion of fairies that is as mentally satisfying as ...
... never be poor as the fairies are , and never as rich ; . . . never as young and never as old . ' Surely the chief appeal of this popular piece lies in the idea . It sets forth a defini- tion of fairies that is as mentally satisfying as ...
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... never fast . ' His desire is a dureless content And a trustless joy ; He is won with a world of despair , And is ... Never sick , never old , never dead , From itself never turning . ' A Description of Love Now what is love ? I 150 ...
... never fast . ' His desire is a dureless content And a trustless joy ; He is won with a world of despair , And is ... Never sick , never old , never dead , From itself never turning . ' A Description of Love Now what is love ? I 150 ...
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... never choose again ; Sweet , if you shrink , I'll never think of love ; Fair , if you fail , I'll judge all beauty vain ; Wise , if too weak , moe wits I'll never prove . Dear , sweet , fair , wise , change , shrink , nor be not weak ...
... never choose again ; Sweet , if you shrink , I'll never think of love ; Fair , if you fail , I'll judge all beauty vain ; Wise , if too weak , moe wits I'll never prove . Dear , sweet , fair , wise , change , shrink , nor be not weak ...
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SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY | 30 |
THE COURTLY MAKERS | 49 |
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ANTHONY MUNDAY Astrophel and Stella beauty Ben Jonson birds bliss breast breath bright conceit crown dear death delight Donne Donne's dost doth earth Edmund Waller Elizabethan English eyes Faery Queen fair fear feeling fire flowers George Gascoigne give glory grace green grief hair happy hast hath heart heaven Jonson KATHERINE PHILIPS king kiss lady light lips live Lord love's lovers lullaby lute lyric lyric poetry madrigal merry metrist MICHAEL DRAYTON mind mistress never night nymphs pain passion pastoral Petrarch Phyllis play pleasure poems poetic poetry poets praise pretty Queen rimes rose scorn Shakespeare shepherd shine Sidney sighs sing sleep smile song sonnet soul Spenser spring stanza sweet taste tears tell thee thine things thou art thought true unto vers de société verse wanton weep Whilst wind words youth