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Beauty clear and fair BEAUTY clear and fair , Where the air Rather like a perfume dwells ; Where the violet and the rose Their blue veins and blush disclose , And come to honour nothing else ; Where to live near , And planted there ...
Beauty clear and fair BEAUTY clear and fair , Where the air Rather like a perfume dwells ; Where the violet and the rose Their blue veins and blush disclose , And come to honour nothing else ; Where to live near , And planted there ...
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230 What greater torment ever could have been , Than to enforce the fair to live retired ? For what is beauty if it be not seen ? Or what is't to be seen if not admired , And though admired , unless in love de- sired ?
230 What greater torment ever could have been , Than to enforce the fair to live retired ? For what is beauty if it be not seen ? Or what is't to be seen if not admired , And though admired , unless in love de- sired ?
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To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit , and live out thy life as the light . I am in thee to save thee , As my soul in thee saith ; Give thou as I gave thee , Thy life - blood and breath , Green leaves of thy labour , white ...
To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit , and live out thy life as the light . I am in thee to save thee , As my soul in thee saith ; Give thou as I gave thee , Thy life - blood and breath , Green leaves of thy labour , white ...
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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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| 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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