The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... heavens view , and in deep darknesse kept , Love , that had now long time securely slept In Venus lap , unarmed then and naked , Gan reare his head , by Clotho being waked : 29 And taking to him wings of his own heat , 4 HYMNES .
... heavens view , and in deep darknesse kept , Love , that had now long time securely slept In Venus lap , unarmed then and naked , Gan reare his head , by Clotho being waked : 29 And taking to him wings of his own heat , 4 HYMNES .
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... heavens life - giving fyre , He gan to move out of his idle seat ; Weakly at first , but after with desyre Lifted aloft , he gan to mount up hyre , And , like fresh Eagle , made his hardy flight Thro all that great wide wast , yet ...
... heavens life - giving fyre , He gan to move out of his idle seat ; Weakly at first , but after with desyre Lifted aloft , he gan to mount up hyre , And , like fresh Eagle , made his hardy flight Thro all that great wide wast , yet ...
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... heavens light disdaine ; No light but that , whose lampe doth yet remaine Fresh burning in the image of their eye , They deigne to see , and seeing it still dye . 66 99 The whylst thou tyrant Love doest laugh and scorne 143 6 HYMNES .
... heavens light disdaine ; No light but that , whose lampe doth yet remaine Fresh burning in the image of their eye , They deigne to see , and seeing it still dye . 66 99 The whylst thou tyrant Love doest laugh and scorne 143 6 HYMNES .
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... heaven fly , But like a moldwarpe in the earth doth ly . His dunghill thoughts , which do themselves enure To dirtie ... heavens hight . Such is the powre of that sweet passion , That it all sordid basenesse doth expell , And the refyned ...
... heaven fly , But like a moldwarpe in the earth doth ly . His dunghill thoughts , which do themselves enure To dirtie ... heavens hight . Such is the powre of that sweet passion , That it all sordid basenesse doth expell , And the refyned ...
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... heavens such happie grace did to him lend , As thing on earth so heavenly to have seene His harts enshrined Saint , his ... heaven and hell thou makest way , To win them worship which to thee obay . And if by all these perils , and these ...
... heavens such happie grace did to him lend , As thing on earth so heavenly to have seene His harts enshrined Saint , his ... heaven and hell thou makest way , To win them worship which to thee obay . And if by all these perils , and these ...
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