Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1810 - English poetry |
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... wake Diana with a hymn ; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress's ear , And draw her home with music . [ Music . Jes . I am never merry when I hear sweet music . Lor . The reason is , your spirits are attentive ; For do but note a ...
... wake Diana with a hymn ; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress's ear , And draw her home with music . [ Music . Jes . I am never merry when I hear sweet music . Lor . The reason is , your spirits are attentive ; For do but note a ...
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... wakes him with early songs , And birds ' sweet whistling notes unlock his eyes : In country plays is all the strife he uses ; Or sing , or dance unto the rural Muses ; And but in music's sports all difference refuses . His certain life ...
... wakes him with early songs , And birds ' sweet whistling notes unlock his eyes : In country plays is all the strife he uses ; Or sing , or dance unto the rural Muses ; And but in music's sports all difference refuses . His certain life ...
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... waking dream , Yet let it like an odour rise To all the senses here , And fall like sleep upon their eyes , Or music in their ear . EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H. UNDERNEATH this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life ...
... waking dream , Yet let it like an odour rise To all the senses here , And fall like sleep upon their eyes , Or music in their ear . EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H. UNDERNEATH this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die : Which in life ...
Page 72
... wakes , thy quintels , here thou hast ; Thy May - poles , too , with garlands graced ยท Thy morris - dance , thy Whitsun - ale , Thy shearing - feast , which never fail ; Thy harvest - home , thy wassail - bowl , That's toss'd up after ...
... wakes , thy quintels , here thou hast ; Thy May - poles , too , with garlands graced ยท Thy morris - dance , thy Whitsun - ale , Thy shearing - feast , which never fail ; Thy harvest - home , thy wassail - bowl , That's toss'd up after ...
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... keep , Like fits of waking before sleep , Then slips into that fatal mould Where its first being was enroll'd . It is a dream - whose seeming truth Is moralized DR . HENRY KING . 87 DR HENRY KING Page Sic Vita The Dirge.
... keep , Like fits of waking before sleep , Then slips into that fatal mould Where its first being was enroll'd . It is a dream - whose seeming truth Is moralized DR . HENRY KING . 87 DR HENRY KING Page Sic Vita The Dirge.
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