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It is to be used then , When we do but flatter men ; Friendship true in heart assuréd , Is by nature's gifts procured . Therefore shepherds wanting skill , Can love's duties best fulfill , Since they know not how to feign , Nor with ...
It is to be used then , When we do but flatter men ; Friendship true in heart assuréd , Is by nature's gifts procured . Therefore shepherds wanting skill , Can love's duties best fulfill , Since they know not how to feign , Nor with ...
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He yields love up the keys unto my heart , And tells the other how they should be blest : And thus by those of whom I hoped for aid , To cruel love my soul was first betrayed . XXXVII Dear , why should you command me to my rest ...
He yields love up the keys unto my heart , And tells the other how they should be blest : And thus by those of whom I hoped for aid , To cruel love my soul was first betrayed . XXXVII Dear , why should you command me to my rest ...
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How crosse , how sullen , and how soone She shifts and changes like the moone . How false , how hollow she's in heart ; And how she is her owne least part ; How high she's priz'd , and worth but small ; Little thou ' It love , or not at ...
How crosse , how sullen , and how soone She shifts and changes like the moone . How false , how hollow she's in heart ; And how she is her owne least part ; How high she's priz'd , and worth but small ; Little thou ' It love , or not at ...
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Contents
Medieval Lyrics | 1 |
The Franklins Tale | 16 |
The wordes of the Host to the Phisicien | 28 |
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arms beauty breath bright bring clouds cold dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream earth eyes face fair fall fear feel fields fire flowers give grace green hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hill hope hour kind King lady land leave less light live look Lord lost meet mind morning move Nature never night o'er once pain pass poem pride published rest rise rose round seemed seen side sight sing sleep song soon soul sound spirit spring stand stars stood sweet tears tell thee thine things thou thought till true turn voice wild wind woods Written youth
Bibliographic information
| Title | An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry |
| Editors | Howard Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp |
| Contributor | Margaret Farrand Thorp |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1947 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1232 pages |
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