A Book of Elizabethan LyricsGinn, 1895 - 327 páginas |
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Página ix
... thing to say of a poem that " no man's gravity hath been disturbed thereby , " and the touch- stone of " high seriousness " may perhaps be applied with much success to that group of classical productions which are far more admired than ...
... thing to say of a poem that " no man's gravity hath been disturbed thereby , " and the touch- stone of " high seriousness " may perhaps be applied with much success to that group of classical productions which are far more admired than ...
Página xxii
... things . ' An analysis of these " some things , " which space here forbids , will , I think , show them to depend , to a large degree , upon that deeper element of the modern lyric , poetic insight ; the power which , proceeding by ...
... things . ' An analysis of these " some things , " which space here forbids , will , I think , show them to depend , to a large degree , upon that deeper element of the modern lyric , poetic insight ; the power which , proceeding by ...
Página xxviii
... things , the literary worth of the Elizabethan song books is surprisingly great . It is the opinion of Mr. Bullen , who is certainly best entitled to speak on this subject , that " as a rule composers are responsible only for the music ...
... things , the literary worth of the Elizabethan song books is surprisingly great . It is the opinion of Mr. Bullen , who is certainly best entitled to speak on this subject , that " as a rule composers are responsible only for the music ...
Página xxxiii
... things essentially unpoetical . For now came the days of the Polyolbions and Purple Islands , of verses topographical . mythological , and allegorical - anatomical : works that stand like huge Pelasgan walls , inexplicable from the ...
... things essentially unpoetical . For now came the days of the Polyolbions and Purple Islands , of verses topographical . mythological , and allegorical - anatomical : works that stand like huge Pelasgan walls , inexplicable from the ...
Página xxxvii
... thing to contemplate this great historical refutation of that inane theory which makes litera- ture the pursuit of dreamers , or of abnormal departures from typical manhood , instead of a divine realization , by those who can see more ...
... thing to contemplate this great historical refutation of that inane theory which makes litera- ture the pursuit of dreamers , or of abnormal departures from typical manhood , instead of a divine realization , by those who can see more ...
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Astrophel and Stella Beaumont beauty BEN JONSON birds breast Breton bright Bullen Campion couplet Daniel Davison death delight Dirge Donne doth Drayton Drummond earth Elizabethan Elizabethan lyric England's Helicon English eyes fair fancy fear Fleay Fletcher flowers Francis Beaumont golden grace Gram green Grosart hath heart heaven honor Italian JOHN LYLY Jonson kiss lady live Love's lovers Lyrics from Elizabethan lyrists madrigal metre metrical Michael Drayton mistress Muse never NICHOLAS BRETON night nonny passion pastoral Philip Rosseter Phyllis play pleasure poem poetry poets praise pretty printed quatorzain Queen rimes SAMUEL DANIEL sense Shakespeare shepherd Sidney sighs sing sleep Song Books sonnet sorrow soul Spenser spring stanza sweet content tercets thee Thomas THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS DEKKER thou art thought trochaic unto verse wanton weep whilst WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE words writing written ΙΟ
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Página xix - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses...
Página 87 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Página 154 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Página 122 - ... mistress mine, where are you roaming ? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Página 13 - Come, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Página 122 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown...
Página 86 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Página 128 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Página 84 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf 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 possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Página 43 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...