The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: Edited from the Best Editions, with Memoir, Notes, and GlossaryThomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1984 - 715 pages |
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Page 249
... heart doth melt with mere compassion , To think how causeless of her own accord This gentle damsel , whom I write upon , Should plunged be in such affliction Without all hope of comfort or relief ; That sure I ween the hardest heart of ...
... heart doth melt with mere compassion , To think how causeless of her own accord This gentle damsel , whom I write upon , Should plunged be in such affliction Without all hope of comfort or relief ; That sure I ween the hardest heart of ...
Page 318
... heart did leap , and all her heart - strings tremble , For sudden joy and secret fear withal ; And all her vital pow'rs , with motion nim- ble To succour it , themselves gan there as semble ; That by the swift recourse of flushing blood ...
... heart did leap , and all her heart - strings tremble , For sudden joy and secret fear withal ; And all her vital pow'rs , with motion nim- ble To succour it , themselves gan there as semble ; That by the swift recourse of flushing blood ...
Page 695
... heart , though hardly it can shew Thing so divine to view of earthly eye , The fair idea of your celestial hue And every part reniains immortally : And were it not that , through your cruelty , With sorrow dimmèd and deform'd it were ...
... heart , though hardly it can shew Thing so divine to view of earthly eye , The fair idea of your celestial hue And every part reniains immortally : And were it not that , through your cruelty , With sorrow dimmèd and deform'd it were ...
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