The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Clarendon Press, 1902 - 1084 pages |
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... beauty . laitis ] manners . scho wynnit ] she dwelt . bigly ] fold ] earth . paramour ] lovingly . our allquhair ] all a lyt besyde ] a little , ( i.e. close ) beside . of ane ] kest ] cast . dungering ] dungeon . into hir waine ] in ...
... beauty . laitis ] manners . scho wynnit ] she dwelt . bigly ] fold ] earth . paramour ] lovingly . our allquhair ] all a lyt besyde ] a little , ( i.e. close ) beside . of ane ] kest ] cast . dungering ] dungeon . into hir waine ] in ...
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... beauty but lent , And wish and want as I have done . Now cease , my lute ! this is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste , And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past— My lute be still , for I have done . 39 ...
... beauty but lent , And wish and want as I have done . Now cease , my lute ! this is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste , And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past— My lute be still , for I have done . 39 ...
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... beauty bright , Entice you eft with vain delight . And lullaby my wanton will ; Let reason's rule now reign thy thought ; Since all too late I find by skill How dear I have thy fancies bought ; With lullaby now take thine ease , With ...
... beauty bright , Entice you eft with vain delight . And lullaby my wanton will ; Let reason's rule now reign thy thought ; Since all too late I find by skill How dear I have thy fancies bought ; With lullaby now take thine ease , With ...
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... beauty she doth miss When all her robes are on : But Beauty's self she is When all her robes are gone . 64. How can the Heart forget her ? Davison's Poetical 93 ANONYMOUS.
... beauty she doth miss When all her robes are on : But Beauty's self she is When all her robes are gone . 64. How can the Heart forget her ? Davison's Poetical 93 ANONYMOUS.
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... beauty's overthrow . 67 . Sister , Awake ! Thomas Bateson's First Set of English Madrigals , 1604 SISTER , awake ! close not your eyes ! The day her light discloses , And the bright morning doth arise Out of her bed of roses . See the ...
... beauty's overthrow . 67 . Sister , Awake ! Thomas Bateson's First Set of English Madrigals , 1604 SISTER , awake ! close not your eyes ! The day her light discloses , And the bright morning doth arise Out of her bed of roses . See the ...
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Annabel Lee beauty birds bliss blow bonnie breast breath bright Camelot Clerk Saunders cloud cold Corydon dark Dark Rosaleen dead dear death deep delight dost doth dream earth Edom eyes face fair Fair Annie fear flame flowers frae gone grace grave green hair hame hand happy hath hear heart heaven Kilmeny kiss Lady Lady of Shalott land leave light live look look'd Lord Love's lovers Lycidas maid merry moon morn ne'er never night Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er pain rest rose round Samian wine shade shine sigh sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit spring stars sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thought thro Timor Mortis conturbat tree Twas unto voice wawking weep wild wilt wind wine wings youth
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Page 708 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Page 630 - A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And "mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Page 710 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Page 790 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Page 685 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...
Page 321 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 317 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew, Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Page 595 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 653 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 709 - As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side ; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream ? Fled is that music : — Do I wake or sleep...