Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1509-1660 |
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With sweet remembrance of his pleasures past , And fresh delights of lusty youth forewaste ; Recounting which , how would he sob and shriek , And to be young again of Jove beseek ! But , and the cruel fates so fixed be That time ...
With sweet remembrance of his pleasures past , And fresh delights of lusty youth forewaste ; Recounting which , how would he sob and shriek , And to be young again of Jove beseek ! But , and the cruel fates so fixed be That time ...
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From country then to court I was preferred , From calm to storms , from shore into the deeps ; There where I perished , where my youth first erred ; There where I lost the flower which honor keeps ; There where the worser thrives ...
From country then to court I was preferred , From calm to storms , from shore into the deeps ; There where I perished , where my youth first erred ; There where I lost the flower which honor keeps ; There where the worser thrives ...
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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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JOHN SKELTON | 3 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY | 27 |
MINOR COURTLY MAKERS OF HENRY VIIIS REIGN | 41 |
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