The Book of Restoration VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite Brentano's, 1910 - 864 pages |
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Page 11
... praise , Less than half we find exprest , Envy bid conceal the rest . Mark what radiant state she spreds , In circle round her shining throne , Shooting her beams like silver threds , This this is she alone , Sitting like a Goddes ...
... praise , Less than half we find exprest , Envy bid conceal the rest . Mark what radiant state she spreds , In circle round her shining throne , Shooting her beams like silver threds , This this is she alone , Sitting like a Goddes ...
Page 40
... before the flood , And you should , if you please , refuse * Till the conversion of the Jews ; My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow ; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes , 40 THE BOOK OF 28. ...
... before the flood , And you should , if you please , refuse * Till the conversion of the Jews ; My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow ; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes , 40 THE BOOK OF 28. ...
Page 41
William Stanley Braithwaite. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes , and on thy forehead gaze ; Two hundred to adore each breast , But thirty thousand to the rest ; An age at least to every part , And the last age should show ...
William Stanley Braithwaite. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes , and on thy forehead gaze ; Two hundred to adore each breast , But thirty thousand to the rest ; An age at least to every part , And the last age should show ...
Page 71
... praise to crown thee ; Though my first death proclaim thee fair . My second will unthrone thee . Lovers will doubt thou canst entice No other for thy fuel , And if thou burn one victim twice , Both think thee poor and cruel ! T. Stanley ...
... praise to crown thee ; Though my first death proclaim thee fair . My second will unthrone thee . Lovers will doubt thou canst entice No other for thy fuel , And if thou burn one victim twice , Both think thee poor and cruel ! T. Stanley ...
Page 80
... praise't Till transubstantiate with a taste . Inspired like Mahomet from above By the billing of my heavenly dove Love prints his signets in her smacks , Those ruddy drops of squeezing wax , Which , wheresoever she imparts , They've ...
... praise't Till transubstantiate with a taste . Inspired like Mahomet from above By the billing of my heavenly dove Love prints his signets in her smacks , Those ruddy drops of squeezing wax , Which , wheresoever she imparts , They've ...
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The Book of Restoration Verse: Chosen and Edited with Notes (Classic Reprint) William Stanley Braithwaite No preview available - 2017 |
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Anon ballad beauty blest bold bonny brave breast bright Carterhaugh charms Child Waters Clerk Saunders Countess of Winchilsea dead dear death delight divine dost doth drink Earl ev'ry eyes fair Fair Annie fame fate fear fire flame flowers frae gold grace grave green hand hast hath hear heart Heaven Hind Horn king Kinmont Willie kiss kynge lady light Little Musgrave Litull John live Lord lover Mary Ambree Milton mind mother Muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain pleasure poets praise Queen quoth Robin Hood Robyn Hode rose round sacred Scottish Border seid shade shine sighs sing sleep smile Song soul stars sweet Tam Lin tears tell thee thine things Thomas Traherne thou art thought tree Twas verse weep Whilst wind wine wings young