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If we love things long sought , age is a thing Which we are fifty years in compassing ; If transitory things , which soon decay , Age must be loveliest at the latest day . But name not winter faces , whose skin's slack , Lank as an ...
If we love things long sought , age is a thing Which we are fifty years in compassing ; If transitory things , which soon decay , Age must be loveliest at the latest day . But name not winter faces , whose skin's slack , Lank as an ...
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Sure men are blind , And can't the forcible reality Of things that secret are within them see . Thought ! Surely thoughts are true ; They please as much as things can do ; Nay , things are dead , And in themselves are severėd From souls ...
Sure men are blind , And can't the forcible reality Of things that secret are within them see . Thought ! Surely thoughts are true ; They please as much as things can do ; Nay , things are dead , And in themselves are severėd From souls ...
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Did I flourish or diminish , When I so in thoughts did finish What I had in things begun ; When from God's works to think upon The thoughts of men my soul did come ? The thoughts of men , had they been wise , Should more delight me than ...
Did I flourish or diminish , When I so in thoughts did finish What I had in things begun ; When from God's works to think upon The thoughts of men my soul did come ? The thoughts of men , had they been wise , Should more delight me than ...
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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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