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Page 53
... dead , never cold , From itself never turning . The Lover in Winter Plaineth for O the Spring 16th Cent . ( ? ) WESTERN wind , when wilt thou blow That the small rain down can rain ? Christ , that my love were in my arms And I in my bed ...
... dead , never cold , From itself never turning . The Lover in Winter Plaineth for O the Spring 16th Cent . ( ? ) WESTERN wind , when wilt thou blow That the small rain down can rain ? Christ , that my love were in my arms And I in my bed ...
Page 62
... dead , And Truth away From you is fled ? Should I be led With doubleness ? Nay ! nay ! mistress . I promised you , And you promised me , To be as true As I would be . But since I see Your double heart , Farewell my part ! Thought for to ...
... dead , And Truth away From you is fled ? Should I be led With doubleness ? Nay ! nay ! mistress . I promised you , And you promised me , To be as true As I would be . But since I see Your double heart , Farewell my part ! Thought for to ...
Page 137
... dead love be awaked ? Was it for this that I might Myra see Washing the water with her beauty's white ? Yet would she never write her love to me . Thinks wit of change when thoughts are in delight ? Mad girls may safely love as they may ...
... dead love be awaked ? Was it for this that I might Myra see Washing the water with her beauty's white ? Yet would she never write her love to me . Thinks wit of change when thoughts are in delight ? Mad girls may safely love as they may ...
Page 188
... dead ; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence . So they loved , as love in twain Had the essence but in one ; Two distincts , division none ; Number there in love was slain . Hearts remote , yet not asunder ; Distance ...
... dead ; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence . So they loved , as love in twain Had the essence but in one ; Two distincts , division none ; Number there in love was slain . Hearts remote , yet not asunder ; Distance ...
Page 190
... dead birds sigh a prayer . SHALL I Sonnets i compare thee to a Summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May , And Summer's lease hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the ...
... dead birds sigh a prayer . SHALL I Sonnets i compare thee to a Summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May , And Summer's lease hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the ...
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