Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1509-1660 |
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And can shadows pleasure give ? Pleasures only shadows be Cast by bodies we conceive , And are made the things we deem In those figures which they seem . But these pleasures vanish fast , Which by shadows are expressed .
And can shadows pleasure give ? Pleasures only shadows be Cast by bodies we conceive , And are made the things we deem In those figures which they seem . But these pleasures vanish fast , Which by shadows are expressed .
Page 378
But when I waked it was not so , In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Therefore my heart is surely pight Of her alone to have a sight , Which is my joy and heart's delight , In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure .
But when I waked it was not so , In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Therefore my heart is surely pight Of her alone to have a sight , Which is my joy and heart's delight , In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure .
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50 Pleasure . All this fair , and cost , and sweet , Which scatteringly doth shine , Shall within one beauty meet , And she be only thine . Soul . If things of sight such heavens be , What heavens are those we cannot see ? Pleasure .
50 Pleasure . All this fair , and cost , and sweet , Which scatteringly doth shine , Shall within one beauty meet , And she be only thine . Soul . If things of sight such heavens be , What heavens are those we cannot see ? Pleasure .
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