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... fall in love with him : but , for my part , I love him not , nor hate him not ; and yet I have more cause to hate him than to love him : For what had he to do to chide at me ? He said mine eyes were black , and my hair black ; And , now ...
... fall in love with him : but , for my part , I love him not , nor hate him not ; and yet I have more cause to hate him than to love him : For what had he to do to chide at me ? He said mine eyes were black , and my hair black ; And , now ...
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... fall in love ? Ah ! why should hapless human kind Be punished out of season ? Pray listen , and perhaps you ' ll find My rhyme may give the reason . Death , strolling out one summer's day , Met Cupid , with his sparrows ; And ...
... fall in love ? Ah ! why should hapless human kind Be punished out of season ? Pray listen , and perhaps you ' ll find My rhyme may give the reason . Death , strolling out one summer's day , Met Cupid , with his sparrows ; And ...
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... fall in love ? - Ah ! why should hapless human kind Be punished out of season ? Pray listen , and perhaps you ' ll find My rhyme may give the reason . Death , strolling out one summer's day , Met Cupid , with his sparrows ; And ...
... fall in love ? - Ah ! why should hapless human kind Be punished out of season ? Pray listen , and perhaps you ' ll find My rhyme may give the reason . Death , strolling out one summer's day , Met Cupid , with his sparrows ; And ...
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... fall . Thy gowns , thy shoes , thy beds of roses , Thy cap , thy kirtle , and thy posies Soon break , soon wither ... falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . There will I make thee beds of roses With a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of ...
... fall . Thy gowns , thy shoes , thy beds of roses , Thy cap , thy kirtle , and thy posies Soon break , soon wither ... falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . There will I make thee beds of roses With a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of ...
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... fall . " The night seemed long , and long the twilight With. " His cheek was redder than the rose ; The comeliest ... falls on me Can wash my fault away . " " Yet stay , fair lady , turn again , And dry those pearly tears ; For see ...
... fall . " The night seemed long , and long the twilight With. " His cheek was redder than the rose ; The comeliest ... falls on me Can wash my fault away . " " Yet stay , fair lady , turn again , And dry those pearly tears ; For see ...
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Page 215 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 174 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 190 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Page 431 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 580 - And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves, Forebode not any severing of our loves ! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might; I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet ; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another...
Page 310 - Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them!
Page 370 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 21 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 567 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a Soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard ; Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the Justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances, — And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered Pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose,...
Page 601 - But tell me, tell me! speak again, Thy soft response renewing— What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?' Second Voice 'Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.