The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, Volume 1Arthur Quiller-Couch |
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... delights to honour . To bring home and render so great a spoil com- pendiously has been my capital difficulty . It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in ...
... delights to honour . To bring home and render so great a spoil com- pendiously has been my capital difficulty . It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in ...
Page 42
... you rede to take good heed What men will think and say : Of young , of old , it shall be told That ye be gone away Your wanton will for to fulfil , In green - wood you to play ; And that ye might for your delight No longer make 42 ...
... you rede to take good heed What men will think and say : Of young , of old , it shall be told That ye be gone away Your wanton will for to fulfil , In green - wood you to play ; And that ye might for your delight No longer make 42 ...
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Arthur Quiller-Couch. And that ye might for your delight No longer make delay Rather than ye should thus for me Be called an ill womàn Yet would I to the green - wood go , Alone , a banished man . She . Though it be sung of old and young ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. And that ye might for your delight No longer make delay Rather than ye should thus for me Be called an ill womàn Yet would I to the green - wood go , Alone , a banished man . She . Though it be sung of old and young ...
Page 66
... delight , Help to bewail the woful case And eke the heavy plight Of me , that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my ... delighted me , That yet they do me good : 39. mings ] mingles , mixes . 41 . HENRY HOWARD , EARL OF SURREY Wherewith I ...
... delight , Help to bewail the woful case And eke the heavy plight Of me , that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my ... delighted me , That yet they do me good : 39. mings ] mingles , mixes . 41 . HENRY HOWARD , EARL OF SURREY Wherewith I ...
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... delight , Drowned in tears , to mourn my loss I stand the bitter night In my window where I may see Before the winds how the clouds flee : Lo ! what a mariner love hath made me ! And in green waves when the salt flood Doth rise by rage ...
... delight , Drowned in tears , to mourn my loss I stand the bitter night In my window where I may see Before the winds how the clouds flee : Lo ! what a mariner love hath made me ! And in green waves when the salt flood Doth rise by rage ...
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ain love Gregory Annie of Lochroyan beauty birds breath bright Clerk Saunders dead dear delight dinna ye mind doth earth Edom eyes fair Fair Annie fate fear find my love flame flowers frae grace green gude hame hath heart Heaven honour ill death ill mither King kiss lady lass of Lochroyan leave lero light live Lord love-tokens lovers lullaby Lycidas maun mermaid merry morn nane ne'er never night out-owre the sea praise Queen rose sail'd it round sailing set my true-love shade Shining both clear shoe is frozen sigh sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep Song sorrow soul spak his ill spring stars sweet ta'en her young tears tell things thou art Timor Mortis conturbat tree true true Thomas true-love free wanton warlock weep wine wings witch nor wil ye ill woman Ye're youth