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... feel , and you may see Such lines upon my head to be . They be the strings of sober sound , Whose music is harmonical ; Their tunes declare a time from ground I came , and how thereto I shall : Wherefore I love that you may see Upon my ...
... feel , and you may see Such lines upon my head to be . They be the strings of sober sound , Whose music is harmonical ; Their tunes declare a time from ground I came , and how thereto I shall : Wherefore I love that you may see Upon my ...
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... feel and find them less ; To scrape the bald skull which was wont to hold Our lovely locks with curling sticks controul'd ; To look in glass , and spy Sir Wrinkle's chair Set fast on fronts which erst were sleek and fair . 37. THOMAS ...
... feel and find them less ; To scrape the bald skull which was wont to hold Our lovely locks with curling sticks controul'd ; To look in glass , and spy Sir Wrinkle's chair Set fast on fronts which erst were sleek and fair . 37. THOMAS ...
Page 83
... feels not what affliction greatness yields ! Other than what he is he would not be , Nor change his state with him that sceptre wields . Thine , thine is that true life : that is to live To rest secure , and not rise up to grieve . Thou ...
... feels not what affliction greatness yields ! Other than what he is he would not be , Nor change his state with him that sceptre wields . Thine , thine is that true life : that is to live To rest secure , and not rise up to grieve . Thou ...
Page 86
... feel not their estate , But extreme sense hath made them desperate . Sorrow ! to whom we owe all that we be , Tyrant in the fifth and greatest monarchy , Was't that she did possess all hearts before Thou hast killed her , to make thy ...
... feel not their estate , But extreme sense hath made them desperate . Sorrow ! to whom we owe all that we be , Tyrant in the fifth and greatest monarchy , Was't that she did possess all hearts before Thou hast killed her , to make thy ...
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... feel not the inward reason they stand upon , yet will be content to be delighted ; which is all the good - fellow poet seems to promise ; and so steal to see the form of goodness - which , seen , they cannot but love ere themselves be ...
... feel not the inward reason they stand upon , yet will be content to be delighted ; which is all the good - fellow poet seems to promise ; and so steal to see the form of goodness - which , seen , they cannot but love ere themselves be ...
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ancholy arms beauty behold blessed blood Bo-bo breast breath Charlemagne Christian clouds Colma cried dark dead dear death deep delight doth dread dream Dryden earth English eternal eyes fair father fear feel fire give glory grace grave hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre hill holy honor hope human Ivanhoe John Anderson John Gilpin king labor Lady Teaz land light live look Lord lyre Manual Mayenne mighty mind moon Morar nature ne'er never night noble o'er pain passion peace pleasure poets Pope praise prayer pride rest Sejanus sigh Sir Patrick Spens Sir Pet sleep smile song soul sound spirit sweet tears tell thee thine things thou thought tion truth Twas virtue voice weary wild wind younkers