The Golden Pomp: A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to Shirley |
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Now , Flora , deck thyself in fairest guise : If that ye winds would hear A voice
surpassing far Amphion ' s lyre , Your stormy chiding stay ; Let zephyr only
breathe And with her tresses play , Kissing sometimes these purple ports of death
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Now , Flora , deck thyself in fairest guise : If that ye winds would hear A voice
surpassing far Amphion ' s lyre , Your stormy chiding stay ; Let zephyr only
breathe And with her tresses play , Kissing sometimes these purple ports of death
.
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This thought is as a death , which cannot choose But weep to have that which it
fears to lose . XXII SINCE brass , nor stone , nor earth , nor boundless sea , But
sad mortality o ' ersways their power , How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea
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This thought is as a death , which cannot choose But weep to have that which it
fears to lose . XXII SINCE brass , nor stone , nor earth , nor boundless sea , But
sad mortality o ' ersways their power , How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea
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Men are fools that wish to die ! Is ' t not fine to dance and sing When the bells of
death do ring ? Is ' t not fine to swim in wine , And turn upon the toe , And sing hey
, nonny no ! When the winds blow and the seas flow ? Hey , nonny no ! Anon .
Men are fools that wish to die ! Is ' t not fine to dance and sing When the bells of
death do ring ? Is ' t not fine to swim in wine , And turn upon the toe , And sing hey
, nonny no ! When the winds blow and the seas flow ? Hey , nonny no ! Anon .
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But as his joys are double , So is his trouble ; He hath two winters , other things
but one : Both frosts and thoughts do nip · And bite his lip ; And he of all things
fears two deaths alone . Yet ev ' n the greatest griefs May be reliefs , Could he but
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But as his joys are double , So is his trouble ; He hath two winters , other things
but one : Both frosts and thoughts do nip · And bite his lip ; And he of all things
fears two deaths alone . Yet ev ' n the greatest griefs May be reliefs , Could he but
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Love , whose month was ever May , Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the
wanton air : Through the velvet leaves the wind , All unseen , ' gan passage find ;
That the lover , sick to death , Wish ' d himself the heaven ' s breath .
Love , whose month was ever May , Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the
wanton air : Through the velvet leaves the wind , All unseen , ' gan passage find ;
That the lover , sick to death , Wish ' d himself the heaven ' s breath .
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Airs Anon ANTHONY HOPE appear Author beauty birds born bright bring Browne called Campion clear College Crown 8vo dear death delight desire doth earth Edition English eyes face fair fall fear fire flowers follow give gone grace green grow hand hast hath hear heart heaven Herrick hope Illustrated Italy John keep kind king kiss Lady leave light lines lips live look Lord lovers lullaby merry mind morn move Nature never night once Page play pleasure poem poor pretty printed rest rose Second seen Shakespeare shepherd sighs sight sing sleep smile song soon soul spring story sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought true unto verse volume wanton weep wind wish youth
Pasajes populares
Página 277 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 22 - When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight ; The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he :Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Página 19 - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Página 116 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Página 144 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Página 15 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.
Página 105 - As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made...
Página 123 - Philomel her voice shall raise ? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...
Página 41 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Página 109 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ! As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.