English Poetry of the Seventeenth CenturyRoberta Florence Brinkley |
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... grow longer all the day ; But oh , love's day is short , if love decay . Love is a growing , or full constant light , And his short minute after noon , is night . The Will Before I sigh my last gasp , let me breathe , Great Love , some ...
... grow longer all the day ; But oh , love's day is short , if love decay . Love is a growing , or full constant light , And his short minute after noon , is night . The Will Before I sigh my last gasp , let me breathe , Great Love , some ...
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... grow Forever free from aged snow ; If those bright suns must know no shade , Nor your fresh beauties ever fade ; Then , fear not , Celia , to bestow What , still being gathered , still must grow . Thus , either Time his sickle brings In ...
... grow Forever free from aged snow ; If those bright suns must know no shade , Nor your fresh beauties ever fade ; Then , fear not , Celia , to bestow What , still being gathered , still must grow . Thus , either Time his sickle brings In ...
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... the broadest shield , Under the shadow of whose friendly boughs 20 10 They sit , carousing where their liquor grows . 20 Figs there unplanted through the fields do grow , Such EDMUND WALLER 305 The Battle of the Summer Islands, Canto I.
... the broadest shield , Under the shadow of whose friendly boughs 20 10 They sit , carousing where their liquor grows . 20 Figs there unplanted through the fields do grow , Such EDMUND WALLER 305 The Battle of the Summer Islands, Canto I.
Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND | 1 |
JOHN DONNE | 21 |
The Legacy | 30 |
Copyright | |
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