The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... sweet harp and Rosalind Live thou content ; " but lo ! before the wind A pinnace with full sails and streamers gay Sweeps onward , bound to th ' golden shores of Ind ; He rose - and pointing to the western bay , 66 My path is with the ...
... sweet harp and Rosalind Live thou content ; " but lo ! before the wind A pinnace with full sails and streamers gay Sweeps onward , bound to th ' golden shores of Ind ; He rose - and pointing to the western bay , 66 My path is with the ...
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... sweet on other ground To tread , that in enchanted light appears From fancy's golden wings ! and now in sooth , Led by the Muses ' hand , ' tis his to see Sweet forms of virtuous love , and tender ruth , That never may on earth divided ...
... sweet on other ground To tread , that in enchanted light appears From fancy's golden wings ! and now in sooth , Led by the Muses ' hand , ' tis his to see Sweet forms of virtuous love , and tender ruth , That never may on earth divided ...
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... sweet and allegorical poet are not only strong and circumstantial imagery , but tender and pathetic feeling , a most melodious flow of versification , and a certain pleasing melancholy in his sentiments , the constant companion of an ...
... sweet and allegorical poet are not only strong and circumstantial imagery , but tender and pathetic feeling , a most melodious flow of versification , and a certain pleasing melancholy in his sentiments , the constant companion of an ...
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... sweet banks there lives that sacred Crowne , Whose hand strowes Palme and never - dying bayes . Let all at once , with thy soft murmuring sowne , Present her with this worthy Poets prayes : For he hath taught hye drifts in Shepherdes ...
... sweet banks there lives that sacred Crowne , Whose hand strowes Palme and never - dying bayes . Let all at once , with thy soft murmuring sowne , Present her with this worthy Poets prayes : For he hath taught hye drifts in Shepherdes ...
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... sweet Lady Muses for to play : So Ennius the elder Africane So Maro oft did Casars cares allay . So you , great Lord , that with your counsell sway The burdein of this kingdom mightily , With like delightes sometimes may eke delay The ...
... sweet Lady Muses for to play : So Ennius the elder Africane So Maro oft did Casars cares allay . So you , great Lord , that with your counsell sway The burdein of this kingdom mightily , With like delightes sometimes may eke delay The ...
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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...