The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... bliss , and spoil my rest ; Then thou would'st melt the ice out of thy breast And thy relenting heart would kindly warm . O if thy pride did not our joys controul , What world of loving wonders should'st thou see ; For if I saw thee ...
... bliss , and spoil my rest ; Then thou would'st melt the ice out of thy breast And thy relenting heart would kindly warm . O if thy pride did not our joys controul , What world of loving wonders should'st thou see ; For if I saw thee ...
Page 66
... bliss As a kiss Might not for ever last ! So sugared , so melting , so soft , so delicious , The dew that lies on roses , When the morn herself discloses , Is not so precious . O , rather than it would I smother , Were I to taste such ...
... bliss As a kiss Might not for ever last ! So sugared , so melting , so soft , so delicious , The dew that lies on roses , When the morn herself discloses , Is not so precious . O , rather than it would I smother , Were I to taste such ...
Page 73
... bliss ; And in my thoughts I did approve Naught so sweet as is true love . Love ' twixt lovers passeth these , When mouth kisseth and heart grees , With folded arms and lips meeting , Each soul another sweetly greeting ; For by the ...
... bliss ; And in my thoughts I did approve Naught so sweet as is true love . Love ' twixt lovers passeth these , When mouth kisseth and heart grees , With folded arms and lips meeting , Each soul another sweetly greeting ; For by the ...
Page 124
... bliss , - Make me live by serving you ! Dear , again back recall To this light , A stranger to himself and all ! Both the wonder and the story Shall be yours , and eke the glory ; I am your servant , and your thrall . J. Fletcher 135 ...
... bliss , - Make me live by serving you ! Dear , again back recall To this light , A stranger to himself and all ! Both the wonder and the story Shall be yours , and eke the glory ; I am your servant , and your thrall . J. Fletcher 135 ...
Page 141
... bliss , For I am set in luve as well as I would wiss ; I luve my lady pure and she luvis me again , I am her serviture , she is my soverane ; She is my very heart , I am her howp and heill , She is my joy invart , I am her luvar leal ...
... bliss , For I am set in luve as well as I would wiss ; I luve my lady pure and she luvis me again , I am her serviture , she is my soverane ; She is my very heart , I am her howp and heill , She is my joy invart , I am her luvar leal ...
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Anon Astrophel and Stella beauty bel ami Ben Jonson birds bliss breast breath bright Bullen Campion Corydon dead dear death delight desire dost doth Dowden earth Elizabethan England's Helicon eyes Faery Queene fair fairy-queen faith fear fire Fletcher flowers give glory golden grace green grief hair happy hath heart heaven heavenly Herrick honour Jonson King kiss Lady leave light Line Line 11 lips live livës joy look Lord Love's Love's Labour's Lost lovers lullaby Madrigals maids merry mind Muse N'oserez never night nymphs passions pity pleasure poem poets praise Queen Queen Mab roses says Shakespeare shalt shepherd shine sighs sing sleep smile song sonnet sorrow soul Spenser spring stanzas star swain sweet tears tell Tereus thee thine things thou art thought true love unto verse wanton weep Whilst wind youth