The Golden Pomp: A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to ShirleyArthur Quiller-Couch Methuen, 1895 - 382 Seiten |
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... wanton hair : Bring me but one , I'll promise thee , Instead of common showers , Thy wings shall be embalm'd by me , And all beset with flowers . Herrick . PHYLLIDA AND CORYDON 333 XXXIX PHYLLIDA AND CORYDON In the 32 THE GOLDEN POMP.
... wanton hair : Bring me but one , I'll promise thee , Instead of common showers , Thy wings shall be embalm'd by me , And all beset with flowers . Herrick . PHYLLIDA AND CORYDON 333 XXXIX PHYLLIDA AND CORYDON In the 32 THE GOLDEN POMP.
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... wanton air : Through the velvet leaves the wind , All unseen , ' gan passage find ; That the lover , sick to death , Wish'd himself the heaven's breath . ' Air , ' quoth he , ' thy cheeks may blow ; Air , would I might triumph so ! But ...
... wanton air : Through the velvet leaves the wind , All unseen , ' gan passage find ; That the lover , sick to death , Wish'd himself the heaven's breath . ' Air , ' quoth he , ' thy cheeks may blow ; Air , would I might triumph so ! But ...
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... wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields : A honey tongue , a heart of gall , Is fancy's spring but sorrow's fall . Thy gowns , thy shoes , thy beds of roses , Thy cap , thy kirtle , and thy posies , Soon break , soon wither ...
... wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields : A honey tongue , a heart of gall , Is fancy's spring but sorrow's fall . Thy gowns , thy shoes , thy beds of roses , Thy cap , thy kirtle , and thy posies , Soon break , soon wither ...
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... For kings have often fears when they do sup , Where shepherds dread no poison in their cup : Ah then , ah then , If country loves such sweet desires do gain , What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? To bed he goes , as wanton then , I.
... For kings have often fears when they do sup , Where shepherds dread no poison in their cup : Ah then , ah then , If country loves such sweet desires do gain , What lady would not love a shepherd swain ? To bed he goes , as wanton then , I.
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... wanton then , I ween , As is a king in dalliance with a queen ; More wanton too ; For kings have many griefs affects to move , Where shepherds have no greater grief than love : Ah then , ah then , If country loves such sweet desires do ...
... wanton then , I ween , As is a king in dalliance with a queen ; More wanton too ; For kings have many griefs affects to move , Where shepherds have no greater grief than love : Ah then , ah then , If country loves such sweet desires do ...
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Anon ANTHONY HOPE Author babe Baring Gould beauty birds Book of Airs bright Buckram Campion Corydon Crown 8vo cuckoo dear death delight dost doth E. F. BENSON earth England's Helicon English eyes fair fairy-queen fear flowers GILBERT PARKER GORDON BROWNE grace green Greensleeves grief H. C. BEECHING hath heart heaven heavenly Heigh Herrick honour JOHN KEBLE Jonson king kiss Lady leave light lips live look Lord Love's lovers lullaby Madrigals maid merry MESSRS METHUEN'S LIST mind morn never night nonny pity pleasure poem praise pretty Prisoner of Zenda Queen Raleigh rose Shakespeare shepherd sighs sing sleep smile song sorrow soul spring stanzas story swain tears Tereu thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought true love unto verse volume W. E. HENLEY W. G. COLLINGWOOD wanton weep wilt thou wind winter youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 277 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Seite 22 - When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight ; The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he :Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Seite 19 - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Seite 116 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Seite 144 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Seite 15 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.
Seite 105 - As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made...
Seite 123 - Philomel her voice shall raise ? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...
Seite 41 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Seite 109 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ! As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.