Poetry of the English Renaissance 1509-1660: Selected from Early Editions and Manuscripts |
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The flower How fresh , O Lord , how sweet and clean Are thy returns ! Ev'n as the flowers in spring , To which , besides their own demean , The late - past frosts tributes of pleasure bring . Grief melts away Like snow in May , As if ...
The flower How fresh , O Lord , how sweet and clean Are thy returns ! Ev'n as the flowers in spring , To which , besides their own demean , The late - past frosts tributes of pleasure bring . Grief melts away Like snow in May , As if ...
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The spring Though you be absent here , I needs must say The trees as beauteous are , and flowers as gay As ever they were wont to be ; Nay , the birds ' rural music too Is as melodious and free As if they sung to pleasure you ; I saw a ...
The spring Though you be absent here , I needs must say The trees as beauteous are , and flowers as gay As ever they were wont to be ; Nay , the birds ' rural music too Is as melodious and free As if they sung to pleasure you ; I saw a ...
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... happy garden - state , themselves do reach ; While man there walked without a mate ; Stumbling on melons as I pass , Ensnared with flowers , I fall on After a place so pure and sweet , What other help could yet be grass . meet !
... happy garden - state , themselves do reach ; While man there walked without a mate ; Stumbling on melons as I pass , Ensnared with flowers , I fall on After a place so pure and sweet , What other help could yet be grass . meet !
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JOHN DAVIES OF HEREFORD 534 | 534 |
THOMAS HEYWOOD | 541 |
SIR JOHN BEAUMONT | 547 |
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