The Oxford Library of English Poetry, Volume 1John Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 443 pages |
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... tears ; why she , even she , - O God ! a beast , that wants discourse of reason , Would have mourn'd longer , -married with mine uncle , My father's brother , but no more like my father Than I to Hercules : within a month , Ere yet the ...
... tears ; why she , even she , - O God ! a beast , that wants discourse of reason , Would have mourn'd longer , -married with mine uncle , My father's brother , but no more like my father Than I to Hercules : within a month , Ere yet the ...
Page 201
... tears , make a heavenly Lethean flood , And drown in it my sin's black memory ; That Thou remember them , some claim as debt , I think it mercy , if Thou wilt forget . X DEATH be not proud , though some have called thee Mighty and ...
... tears , make a heavenly Lethean flood , And drown in it my sin's black memory ; That Thou remember them , some claim as debt , I think it mercy , if Thou wilt forget . X DEATH be not proud , though some have called thee Mighty and ...
Page 261
... tears , To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies . For so to interpose a little ease , Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise ; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away , where'er thy bones are hurled ...
... tears , To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies . For so to interpose a little ease , Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise ; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away , where'er thy bones are hurled ...
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EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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