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Page 380
... write . ' ' It runs and slides , ' he continues , ' and only makes a sound . Women's poets they are called , as you have women's tailors ; They write a verse as smooth , as soft as cream , In which there is no torrent , nor scarce ...
... write . ' ' It runs and slides , ' he continues , ' and only makes a sound . Women's poets they are called , as you have women's tailors ; They write a verse as smooth , as soft as cream , In which there is no torrent , nor scarce ...
Page 393
... write worse yet . Filled with such moisture , in a grievous qualm , Did Robert Wisdom write his singing psalm ; And so must I do this , and yet I think It is a potion sent us down to drink By special providence , keeps us from fights ...
... write worse yet . Filled with such moisture , in a grievous qualm , Did Robert Wisdom write his singing psalm ; And so must I do this , and yet I think It is a potion sent us down to drink By special providence , keeps us from fights ...
Page 398
... write of groves , of twilights , and I sing The court of Mab , and of the Fairy King ; I write of hell ; I sing , and ever shall , Of heaven , and hope to have it after all . To Perilla Ah , my Perilla , dost thou grieve to see Me , day ...
... write of groves , of twilights , and I sing The court of Mab , and of the Fairy King ; I write of hell ; I sing , and ever shall , Of heaven , and hope to have it after all . To Perilla Ah , my Perilla , dost thou grieve to see Me , day ...
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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