The Oxford Library of English Poetry, Volume 1John Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 443 pages |
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Page 132
... Hold , hold ! ' Enter MACBETH . Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! Greater than both , by the all - hail hereafter ! Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present , and I feel now The future in the instant . Duncan comes here ...
... Hold , hold ! ' Enter MACBETH . Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! Greater than both , by the all - hail hereafter ! Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present , and I feel now The future in the instant . Duncan comes here ...
Page 168
... hold a plea , Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O ! how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days , When rocks impregnable are not so stout , Nor gates of steel so strong , but Time ...
... hold a plea , Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O ! how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days , When rocks impregnable are not so stout , Nor gates of steel so strong , but Time ...
Page 357
... hold so fast . Hope , thou sad lovers ' only friend ! Thou way that mayest dispute it with the end ! For love I fear's a fruit that does delight The taste itself less than the smell and sight . Fruition more deceitful is Than thou canst ...
... hold so fast . Hope , thou sad lovers ' only friend ! Thou way that mayest dispute it with the end ! For love I fear's a fruit that does delight The taste itself less than the smell and sight . Fruition more deceitful is Than thou canst ...
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EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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Alan a Dale angel arms ASTROPHEL AND STELLA beauty behold blessed blood breast breath bright Cæsar crown dark dead dear death deep delight doth dreadful earth eccho ring English poetry eyes face fair fear fire flames flowers fools gentle glory gold grace Greensleeves grief hand happy hast hath haue head hear heart heav'n hell Himen honour king kiss Lady light limbeck lips live look lord loue love's Lycidas mind Momus nature neuer never night Nymphes o'er pain peace pity pleasure poison'd praise rage rest Robin Hood sigh sight sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep song sorrow soul speak spirits stand stay stood sweet Sycorax tears tell thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought thyself unto Vpon W. H. Auden weep wind wings youth