Poetry of the English Renaissance, 1509-1660 |
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My lost delights , now clean from sight of land , Have left me all alone in unknown ways ; My mind to woe , my life in fortune's handOf all which passed the sorrow only stays . 10 As in a country strange , without companion , I only ...
My lost delights , now clean from sight of land , Have left me all alone in unknown ways ; My mind to woe , my life in fortune's handOf all which passed the sorrow only stays . 10 As in a country strange , without companion , I only ...
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10 A guileful gain , repentance is the pay ; A great fire bred of small occasïon ; A plague to make our frailty to us known , Where we thereby are subject to their lay Whose frailty ought to lean until our stay , In case ourselves this ...
10 A guileful gain , repentance is the pay ; A great fire bred of small occasïon ; A plague to make our frailty to us known , Where we thereby are subject to their lay Whose frailty ought to lean until our stay , In case ourselves this ...
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To daffodils V Fair daffodils , we weep to see | We have short time to stay , as you ; You haste away so soon ; We have as short a spring , As yet the early - rising sun As quick a growth to meet decay , Has not attained his noon .
To daffodils V Fair daffodils , we weep to see | We have short time to stay , as you ; You haste away so soon ; We have as short a spring , As yet the early - rising sun As quick a growth to meet decay , Has not attained his noon .
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