The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... seemd , and faire did sitt , As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt . And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore , The deare remembrance of his dying Lord , For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore , And dead , as ...
... seemd , and faire did sitt , As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt . And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore , The deare remembrance of his dying Lord , For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore , And dead , as ...
Page 28
... seemd , in being ever last , Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe . Thus as they past , The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast , And angry Iove an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his Lemans lap so fast ...
... seemd , in being ever last , Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe . Thus as they past , The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast , And angry Iove an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his Lemans lap so fast ...
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... Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky . Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy , The sayling Pine ; the Cedar proud and tall ; The vine - propp Elme ; the Poplar never dry ; The builder Oake , sole king of forrests all ...
... Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky . Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy , The sayling Pine ; the Cedar proud and tall ; The vine - propp Elme ; the Poplar never dry ; The builder Oake , sole king of forrests all ...
Page 40
... seemd to bereave ; And then againe begun ; " My weaker yeares , Captiv'd to fortune and frayle worldly feares , Fly to your fayth for succour and sure ayde : Let me not die in languor and long teares . " 52 " Why , Dame , ” quoth he ...
... seemd to bereave ; And then againe begun ; " My weaker yeares , Captiv'd to fortune and frayle worldly feares , Fly to your fayth for succour and sure ayde : Let me not die in languor and long teares . " 52 " Why , Dame , ” quoth he ...
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... seemd due recompence Of all her passed paines : one loving howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence ; A dram of sweete is worth a pound of sowre . Shee has forgott how many a woeful stowre For him she late endurd ; she speakes no ...
... seemd due recompence Of all her passed paines : one loving howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence ; A dram of sweete is worth a pound of sowre . Shee has forgott how many a woeful stowre For him she late endurd ; she speakes no ...
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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...