The World's Best Poetry ...John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard J. D. Morris, 1904 |
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... hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines , And often is his gold complexion dimmed : And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance , or nature's changing course , un- trimmed . But thy eternal ...
... hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines , And often is his gold complexion dimmed : And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance , or nature's changing course , un- trimmed . But thy eternal ...
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... hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take ; Or else I doubt if Nature could So fair a creature make . In life she is Diana chaste , In truth Penelope ; In word and eke in deed steadfast : What will you more we say ? If all the ...
... hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take ; Or else I doubt if Nature could So fair a creature make . In life she is Diana chaste , In truth Penelope ; In word and eke in deed steadfast : What will you more we say ? If all the ...
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... hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith , ye may it trust , As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many mo ' Than I with pen have skill to show . I could rehearse , if that I would , The whole ...
... hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith , ye may it trust , As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many mo ' Than I with pen have skill to show . I could rehearse , if that I would , The whole ...
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... Hath come so near creation ? Move these eyes ? Or whether , riding on the balls of mine , Seem they in motion ? Here are severed lips , Parted with sugar breath ; so sweet a bar Should sunder such sweet friends . Here in her hairs The ...
... Hath come so near creation ? Move these eyes ? Or whether , riding on the balls of mine , Seem they in motion ? Here are severed lips , Parted with sugar breath ; so sweet a bar Should sunder such sweet friends . Here in her hairs The ...
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... hath smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down ever ? Or have smelt o ' the bud of the brier ? Or the nard i ' the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? Oh , so white ! oh , so soft ! oh , so sweet is she ...
... hath smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down ever ? Or have smelt o ' the bud of the brier ? Or the nard i ' the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? Oh , so white ! oh , so soft ! oh , so sweet is she ...
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