The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5William Pickering, 1839 |
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... wing , I should enabled be thy actes to sing . Come , then , O come , thou mightie God of Love ! Out of thy silver bowres and secret blisse , Where thou dost sit in Venus lap above , Bathing thy wings in her Ambrosial kisse , That ...
... wing , I should enabled be thy actes to sing . Come , then , O come , thou mightie God of Love ! Out of thy silver bowres and secret blisse , Where thou dost sit in Venus lap above , Bathing thy wings in her Ambrosial kisse , That ...
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... was From heavens view , and in deep darknesse kept , Love , that had now long time securely slept In Venus lap , unarmed then and naked , Gan reare his head , by Clotho being waked : 29 And taking to him wings of his own heat , 4 HYMNES .
... was From heavens view , and in deep darknesse kept , Love , that had now long time securely slept In Venus lap , unarmed then and naked , Gan reare his head , by Clotho being waked : 29 And taking to him wings of his own heat , 4 HYMNES .
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Edmund Spenser. And taking to him wings of his own heat , Kindled at first from heavens life - giving fyre , He gan to move out of his idle seat ; Weakly at first , but after with desyre Lifted aloft , he gan to mount up hyre , And ...
Edmund Spenser. And taking to him wings of his own heat , Kindled at first from heavens life - giving fyre , He gan to move out of his idle seat ; Weakly at first , but after with desyre Lifted aloft , he gan to mount up hyre , And ...
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... wings dare not to heaven fly , But like a moldwarpe in the earth doth ly . His dunghill thoughts , which do themselves enure To dirtie drosse , no higher dare aspyre , Ne can his feeble earthly eyes endure The flaming light of that ...
... wings dare not to heaven fly , But like a moldwarpe in the earth doth ly . His dunghill thoughts , which do themselves enure To dirtie drosse , no higher dare aspyre , Ne can his feeble earthly eyes endure The flaming light of that ...
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... wings From this base world unto thy heavens hight , Where I may see those admirable things Which there thou workest by thy soveraine might , Farre above feeble reach of earthly sight , That I thereof an heavenly Hymne may sing Unto the ...
... wings From this base world unto thy heavens hight , Where I may see those admirable things Which there thou workest by thy soveraine might , Farre above feeble reach of earthly sight , That I thereof an heavenly Hymne may sing Unto the ...
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