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 398
... mighty hands forget their manliness ; Drawn with the pow'r of an heart - robbing eye , And wrapt in fetters of a golden tress , That can with melting pleasaunce mollify Their hard'ned hearts enured to blood and cruelty . II . So whylome ...
... mighty hands forget their manliness ; Drawn with the pow'r of an heart - robbing eye , And wrapt in fetters of a golden tress , That can with melting pleasaunce mollify Their hard'ned hearts enured to blood and cruelty . II . So whylome ...
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... mighty God. HAVING , in the greener times of my youth , composed these former two Hymns in the Praise of Love and Beauty , and find- ing that the same too much pleased those of like age and disposition , which being too vehemently ...
... mighty God. HAVING , in the greener times of my youth , composed these former two Hymns in the Praise of Love and Beauty , and find- ing that the same too much pleased those of like age and disposition , which being too vehemently ...
Page 663
... mighty shining crystal wall , Wherewith He hath encompassed this All . By view whereof it plainly may appear , That still as everythi.g doth upward tend , And further is from earth , so still more clear And fair it grows , till to this ...
... mighty shining crystal wall , Wherewith He hath encompassed this All . By view whereof it plainly may appear , That still as everythi.g doth upward tend , And further is from earth , so still more clear And fair it grows , till to this ...
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