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... flowers o ' the spring as suitable gifts for Florizel and the country maidens : youth and maidenhood are associated with the flowering vitality of ' great creating nature ' in springtime , not only by the wished - for gift of flowers ...
... flowers o ' the spring as suitable gifts for Florizel and the country maidens : youth and maidenhood are associated with the flowering vitality of ' great creating nature ' in springtime , not only by the wished - for gift of flowers ...
Page 86
... flowers . The opening lines seem to me to reveal a straining overeagerness to restore the balance - quaint enameld eyes that suck the honied showres and purple all the ground . The catalogue of flowers is more effective , but in its ...
... flowers . The opening lines seem to me to reveal a straining overeagerness to restore the balance - quaint enameld eyes that suck the honied showres and purple all the ground . The catalogue of flowers is more effective , but in its ...
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... FLOWER ow fresh , O Lord , how sweet and clean Are thy returns ! Ev'n as the flowers in spring , To which , besides their own demean , The late - past frosts tributes of pleasure bring . Grief melts away Like snow in May , As if there ...
... FLOWER ow fresh , O Lord , how sweet and clean Are thy returns ! Ev'n as the flowers in spring , To which , besides their own demean , The late - past frosts tributes of pleasure bring . Grief melts away Like snow in May , As if there ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BEN JONSON Continued | 27 |
ROSALINDS MADRIGAL | 33 |
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