The Oxford Library of English Poetry, Volume 1John Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 443 pages |
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Page 83
... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven Is thick ...
... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven Is thick ...
Page 175
... sweet , but figures of delight , Drawn after you , you pattern of all those . Yet seem'd it winter still , and , you away , As with your shadow I with these did play . XCIX THE forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief , whence ...
... sweet , but figures of delight , Drawn after you , you pattern of all those . Yet seem'd it winter still , and , you away , As with your shadow I with these did play . XCIX THE forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief , whence ...
Page 244
... Sweet rose , whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye , Thy root is ever in its grave , And thou must die . Sweet spring , full of sweet days and roses , A box where sweets compacted lie , My music shows ye have your ...
... Sweet rose , whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye , Thy root is ever in its grave , And thou must die . Sweet spring , full of sweet days and roses , A box where sweets compacted lie , My music shows ye have your ...
Contents
EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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