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Page 144
... heaven , nothing woe . Ah ! were her heart relenting as her hand , That seems to melt even with the mildest touch , Then knew I where to seat me in a land Under wide heavens , but yet there is not such . So as she shows she seems the ...
... heaven , nothing woe . Ah ! were her heart relenting as her hand , That seems to melt even with the mildest touch , Then knew I where to seat me in a land Under wide heavens , but yet there is not such . So as she shows she seems the ...
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... heaven above , Yet should the thoughts of me , your humble swain , Ascend to heaven in honour of my love . Were I as high as heaven above the plain , And you , my Love , as humble and as low As are the deepest bottoms of the main ...
... heaven above , Yet should the thoughts of me , your humble swain , Ascend to heaven in honour of my love . Were I as high as heaven above the plain , And you , my Love , as humble and as low As are the deepest bottoms of the main ...
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... heaven wax'd blind , and till the world were done . Wheresoe'er I am , - below , or else above you— Wheresoe'er you are , my heart shall truly love you . 116 . 2246 I MICHAEL DRAYTON To His Coy Love PRAY thee , leave , love me no more ...
... heaven wax'd blind , and till the world were done . Wheresoe'er I am , - below , or else above you— Wheresoe'er you are , my heart shall truly love you . 116 . 2246 I MICHAEL DRAYTON To His Coy Love PRAY thee , leave , love me no more ...
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... heaven shines , And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd : But thy eternal Summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest ...
... heaven shines , And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd : But thy eternal Summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest ...
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... heaven with my bootless cries , And look upon myself , and curse my fate , Wishing me like to one more rich in hope , Featured like him , like him with friends possest , Desiring this man's art and that man's scope , With what I most ...
... heaven with my bootless cries , And look upon myself , and curse my fate , Wishing me like to one more rich in hope , Featured like him , like him with friends possest , Desiring this man's art and that man's scope , With what I most ...
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