Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics: Book first (Elizabethan period). |
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Abbott adieu anapaest Anon beauty beauty's birds Book breath bridal day Bullen cæsura Campion Cymbeline death doth Drummond Earl earth Elizabethan end my song English poetry eyes F. T. Palgrave Faerie Queene fair Rosaline flowers Gentlemen of Verona Golden Pomp Golden Treasury H. B. Cotterill heaven Heigh Henry hey nonny nonny iambic King kiss lines lips Love good-morrow love's lovers lyric M.A. Boards M.A. Sewed Merchant of Venice merry Metre Midsummer Night's Dream Milton misprision never nightingale passion poem poets rhyme Richard II Rosaline roses run softly Say nay sense Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE'S Sonnets Sidney sing Sleep smile sorrow soul Spenser spring stanza summer's sweet content Sweet Thames Tereus thee thine thorn thou art thought Time's trochaic trochee true-love hath Twelfth Night untrue Love verb verse W. T. Webb wanton Weep wilt thou leave wind word Wyat youth
Popular passages
Page 10 - TO me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still . Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Page 18 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 21 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 7 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 105 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it : it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 22 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end ; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Page 35 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown...
Page 59 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Page 27 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 64 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.