The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... tell , Doe make a Lovers life a wretches hell . Yet is there one more cursed then they all , That cancker - worme , that monster , Gelosie , Which eates the heart and feedes upon the gall , Turning all Loves delight to miserie , Through ...
... tell , Doe make a Lovers life a wretches hell . Yet is there one more cursed then they all , That cancker - worme , that monster , Gelosie , Which eates the heart and feedes upon the gall , Turning all Loves delight to miserie , Through ...
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... tell . Thereof as every earthly thing partakes Or more or lesse , by influence divine , So it more faire accordingly it makes , And the grosse matter of this earthly myne Which closeth it thereafter doth refyne , Doing away the drosse ...
... tell . Thereof as every earthly thing partakes Or more or lesse , by influence divine , So it more faire accordingly it makes , And the grosse matter of this earthly myne Which closeth it thereafter doth refyne , Doing away the drosse ...
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... tell the marveiles by thy mercie wrought . Yet being pregnant still with powrefull grace , And full of fuitfull Love , that loves to get Things like himselfe , and to enlarge his race , His second brood , though not of powre so great ...
... tell the marveiles by thy mercie wrought . Yet being pregnant still with powrefull grace , And full of fuitfull Love , that loves to get Things like himselfe , and to enlarge his race , His second brood , though not of powre so great ...
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... tell the things that I behold , But feele my wits to faile , and tongue to fold . Vouchsafe then , O Thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all guifts of wit and knowledge flow , To shed into my breast some sparkling light Of Thine ...
... tell the things that I behold , But feele my wits to faile , and tongue to fold . Vouchsafe then , O Thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all guifts of wit and knowledge flow , To shed into my breast some sparkling light Of Thine ...
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... tell me then , what hast thou ever seene That to their beautie may compared be , Or can the sight that is most sharpe and keene Endure their Captains flaming head to see ? How much lesse those , much higher in degree , And so much ...
... tell me then , what hast thou ever seene That to their beautie may compared be , Or can the sight that is most sharpe and keene Endure their Captains flaming head to see ? How much lesse those , much higher in degree , And so much ...
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