Early English poems, Chaucer to Pope1863 |
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... give an extract from a well - known work . A Companion Series , consisting of Favourite English Poems of Modern Times , was published some months since . The two volumes now present a sketch of English Poetry from the time of Chaucer to ...
... give an extract from a well - known work . A Companion Series , consisting of Favourite English Poems of Modern Times , was published some months since . The two volumes now present a sketch of English Poetry from the time of Chaucer to ...
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... give them all the lie . • Fair is my love , and cruel as she's fair When Phebus lifts his head . The hart above the rest , the hunter's noblest game My written rolls of moral counsels . On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope Sweet day ! so ...
... give them all the lie . • Fair is my love , and cruel as she's fair When Phebus lifts his head . The hart above the rest , the hunter's noblest game My written rolls of moral counsels . On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope Sweet day ! so ...
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... give penance , Ther as he wiste to han a good pitance : For unto a poure ordre for to give Is signe that a man is wel yshrive . For if he gave , he dorste make avant , He wiste that a man was repentant . For many a man so hard is of his ...
... give penance , Ther as he wiste to han a good pitance : For unto a poure ordre for to give Is signe that a man is wel yshrive . For if he gave , he dorste make avant , He wiste that a man was repentant . For many a man so hard is of his ...
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... give silver to the poure freres . His tippet was ay farsed ' ful of knives , And pinnes , for to given fayre wives . And certainly he hadde a mery note.2 Wel coude he singe and plaien on a rote . Of yeddinges3 he bare utterly the pris ...
... give silver to the poure freres . His tippet was ay farsed ' ful of knives , And pinnes , for to given fayre wives . And certainly he hadde a mery note.2 Wel coude he singe and plaien on a rote . Of yeddinges3 he bare utterly the pris ...
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... his benefice to hire , And lette his shepe acombred in the mire , And ran unto London , unto Seint Poules , 4 Gave . I Tried . 2 Give . 3 Great and small . To seken him a chanterie for soules , Or with 22 PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... his benefice to hire , And lette his shepe acombred in the mire , And ran unto London , unto Seint Poules , 4 Gave . I Tried . 2 Give . 3 Great and small . To seken him a chanterie for soules , Or with 22 PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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afterwards anon beauty became BEN JONSON berd birds BIRKET FOSTER born CHRISTOPHER MARLOW Court death delight died doth E. M. WIMPERIS Earl EDMUND SPENSER educated at Cambridge educated at Oxford eyen eyes Faerie Queene fair flowers GEORGE THOMAS GEORGE WITHER GILES FLETCHER give grace green gret hast hath heart heaven hire honour Hudibras James JOHN GILBERT JOHN LYDGATE king lady live London Lord love is lost Lovis service lusty Lute Merle merry mind mirth neighbours night Nightingale nought o'er old cap poems poor prison Queen rede RICHARD LOVELACE ROBERT GREENE SAMUEL DANIEL sayn Seint SHAKSPEARE shal shepherd swain shulde sing SIR PHILIP SIDNEY sleep smale song soul spring swiche tale Tell tellen thee therto thing thou took unto wanton Wel coude Westminster Westminster Abbey whan wight wine Withouten wolde young courtier youth
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Página 159 - TELL ME NOT, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Página 164 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against Fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 129 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Página 193 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday...
Página 125 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Página 64 - As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made...
Página 260 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 225 - Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Página 196 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Página 68 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.