The Oxford Library of English Poetry, Volume 1John Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 443 pages |
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... thing , In whom love wrought new alchemy . For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness , From dull ... things , draw all that's good , Life , soul , form , spirit , whence they being have ; I , by love's limbeck , am ...
... thing , In whom love wrought new alchemy . For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness , From dull ... things , draw all that's good , Life , soul , form , spirit , whence they being have ; I , by love's limbeck , am ...
Page 376
... things immortal time can do no wrong , And that which never is to die , for ever must be young . Ode to Wit TELL me , O tell , what kind of thing is Wit , Thou who master art of it . For the first matter loves variety less ; Less women ...
... things immortal time can do no wrong , And that which never is to die , for ever must be young . Ode to Wit TELL me , O tell , what kind of thing is Wit , Thou who master art of it . For the first matter loves variety less ; Less women ...
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... things to obtrude , And force some odd similitude . What is it then , which like the power divine We only can by negatives define ? In a true piece of wit all things must be , Yet all things there agree . As in the ark , join'd without ...
... things to obtrude , And force some odd similitude . What is it then , which like the power divine We only can by negatives define ? In a true piece of wit all things must be , Yet all things there agree . As in the ark , join'd without ...
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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