The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1G. Bell, 1891 - Poetry |
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Page 28
... backe , And silver bowe , which was but slacke , Which lightly he bent at me : That seeing , I levelde againe , And shott at him with might and maine , As thicke as it had hayled . So long I shott , that al was spent ; Tho pumie stones ...
... backe , And silver bowe , which was but slacke , Which lightly he bent at me : That seeing , I levelde againe , And shott at him with might and maine , As thicke as it had hayled . So long I shott , that al was spent ; Tho pumie stones ...
Page 42
... backe , As bells , and babes , and glasses , in hys packe : A Biggen he had got about his brayne , For in his head peace he felt a sore payne : His hinder heele was wrapt in a clout , For with great cold he had gotte the gout . 24C ...
... backe , As bells , and babes , and glasses , in hys packe : A Biggen he had got about his brayne , For in his head peace he felt a sore payne : His hinder heele was wrapt in a clout , For with great cold he had gotte the gout . 24C ...
Page 74
... backe to heaven apace . Cud . Ah , Percy ! it is all to weake and wanne , So high to sore and make so large a flight ; Her peeced pyneons bene not so in plight : For Colin fittes such famous flight to scanne ; He , were he not with love ...
... backe to heaven apace . Cud . Ah , Percy ! it is all to weake and wanne , So high to sore and make so large a flight ; Her peeced pyneons bene not so in plight : For Colin fittes such famous flight to scanne ; He , were he not with love ...
Page 114
... backe . Thus as they past , The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast , And angry Jove an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his Lemans lap so fast , 6 That everie wight to shrowd it did constrain ; And this faire couple eke to ...
... backe . Thus as they past , The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast , And angry Jove an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his Lemans lap so fast , 6 That everie wight to shrowd it did constrain ; And this faire couple eke to ...
Page 116
... backe returne with foule disgrace , Yet wisedome warnes , whilest foot is in the gate , To stay the steppe , ere forced to retrate . This is the wandring wood , this Errours den , A monster vile , whom God and man does hate : Therefore ...
... backe returne with foule disgrace , Yet wisedome warnes , whilest foot is in the gate , To stay the steppe , ere forced to retrate . This is the wandring wood , this Errours den , A monster vile , whom God and man does hate : Therefore ...
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Æglogue Archimago beare beast blood bowre braunches brest CANTO carefull chaunce Clout's come Home Colin Clout's corage cruell Cuddie Dame deadly deare death delight Diggon dore doth dreadfull Duessa Edmund Spenser Elfin knight eternall Faerie Queene faire farre fayre feare flocke flowre Gabriel Harvey girlond goodly grace griefe grone hand hart Harvey hast hath heaven Hobbinoll Ireland Kilcolman knight Lady light living Lord Lord Grey maister mightie mought Muse never nigh noble payne Pembroke Hall poem poet poet's Ponsonby powre pype rage Raleigh Rosalind sayd sayne seemd seems selfe shame shee sheepe Shepheardes Calender shew shield shyne sight Sike Sir Walter Raleigh sith sonne sonnets sore Spenser steed sweete thee theyr thilke thou unto vaine verse vertues Viscount Fermoy wandring weary weene wight wont wyde yron