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Desire both lives and dies a thousand times a day . FROM R. S.'s Phoenix Nest , 1593 [ What cunning can express ? ] What cunning can express The favor of her face To whom in this distress I do appeal for grace ?
Desire both lives and dies a thousand times a day . FROM R. S.'s Phoenix Nest , 1593 [ What cunning can express ? ] What cunning can express The favor of her face To whom in this distress I do appeal for grace ?
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Blithe and wanton was I then ,Such desires follow men . As I lay and kept my sheep , Came the god that hateth sleep , Clad in armor all of fire , Hand in hand with queen desire ; And with a dart that wounded me Pierced my heart as I did ...
Blithe and wanton was I then ,Such desires follow men . As I lay and kept my sheep , Came the god that hateth sleep , Clad in armor all of fire , Hand in hand with queen desire ; And with a dart that wounded me Pierced my heart as I did ...
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Yet she comes not ; oh , how I tire Betwixt cold fear and hot desire ! Here alone enforced to tarry , While the tedious minutes marry And get hours ; those , days and years , Which I count with sighs and fears .
Yet she comes not ; oh , how I tire Betwixt cold fear and hot desire ! Here alone enforced to tarry , While the tedious minutes marry And get hours ; those , days and years , Which I count with sighs and fears .
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Contents
JOHN SKELTON | 3 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY | 27 |
MINOR COURTLY MAKERS OF HENRY VIIIS REIGN | 41 |
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| Title | Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1509-1660 |
| Editors | John William Hebel, Hoyt Hopewell Hudson |
| Publisher | F.S. Crofts & Company, 1936 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2020 |
| Length | 1068 pages |
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