The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... , That never may on earth divided be ; And many a high heroic thought of truth , Sung in immortal strains of poesy . Benhall , July , 1839 . J. M. BY THE REV . JOHN MITFORD . EDMUND SPENSER , viii INTRODUCTORY SONNETS .
... , That never may on earth divided be ; And many a high heroic thought of truth , Sung in immortal strains of poesy . Benhall , July , 1839 . J. M. BY THE REV . JOHN MITFORD . EDMUND SPENSER , viii INTRODUCTORY SONNETS .
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... earth so far excell . The highest praise that I can give is this , That one of you like to the other is . " In the same year the Prothalamion , a spousal verse in honour of the double marriage of the Ladies Elizabeth and Catherine ...
... earth so far excell . The highest praise that I can give is this , That one of you like to the other is . " In the same year the Prothalamion , a spousal verse in honour of the double marriage of the Ladies Elizabeth and Catherine ...
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... earth did sustaine , And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise And in the neck of all the world to rayne ; Oft from those grave affaires were wont abstaine , With the sweet Lady Muses for to play : So Ennius the elder Africane So Maro oft ...
... earth did sustaine , And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise And in the neck of all the world to rayne ; Oft from those grave affaires were wont abstaine , With the sweet Lady Muses for to play : So Ennius the elder Africane So Maro oft ...
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... earth full steepe , 37 38 39 And low , where dawning day doth never peepe , His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever - drouping hed , Whiles sad Night over him her ...
... earth full steepe , 37 38 39 And low , where dawning day doth never peepe , His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever - drouping hed , Whiles sad Night over him her ...
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... earth did kis , Greeting his grave : his grudging ghost did strive With the fraile flesh ; at last it flitted is , Whither the soules doe fly of men , that live amis . 19 The Lady , when she saw her champion fall , C. II 45 THE FAERIE ...
... earth did kis , Greeting his grave : his grudging ghost did strive With the fraile flesh ; at last it flitted is , Whither the soules doe fly of men , that live amis . 19 The Lady , when she saw her champion fall , C. II 45 THE FAERIE ...
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Archimago armes Beast behold blood brest brond brought CANTO chaunce corage courser cruell Dame deadly deare death delight despight doen doest doth dread dreadfull Duessa EDMUND SPENSER Eftsoones Elfin Knight eternall Faerie Queene Faery Knight faire faire Lady Fairy false fast fayre feare fitt flowre fowle fownd gentle goodly grace griefe grone hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe honour Lady late light litle living Lord mightie mote never nigh noble nought poem poet powre Pyrochles quoth rage Redcrosse Redcrosse Knight seemd seeme sence shee Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight Sir Guyon Sir Philip Sidney Sith sonne soone sore speach Spenser spide spright steed suddein sweet syre thee thereof thou Todd trew unto vaine verse vertues Villein wandring warre wearie weene whenas wight wondrous wonne wont wound wrath wretched wyde ydle yron
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Page 61 - O then too weake and feeble was the forse 370 Of salvage beast, his puissance to withstand: For he was strong, and of so mightie corse, As ever wielded speare in warlike hand, And feates of armes did wisely understand. Eftsoones he perced through his chaufed chest...