Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritR.H. Evans, 1810 - 352 páginas |
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... Powers defend my heart 325 Yes , I'm in love , I feel it now 204 You tell me I'm handsome , I know not how true 294 Young I am , and yet unskill'd 156 NAMES OF AUTHORS , WITH REFERENCES . Addison , 189 A TABLE OF FIRST LINES . xxi.
... Powers defend my heart 325 Yes , I'm in love , I feel it now 204 You tell me I'm handsome , I know not how true 294 Young I am , and yet unskill'd 156 NAMES OF AUTHORS , WITH REFERENCES . Addison , 189 A TABLE OF FIRST LINES . xxi.
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... true love thou did'st see . And how should I know your true love From many another one ? O by his cockle * hat and staff , And by his sandal shoon . But chiefly by his face and mien , That were so fair to view ; His flaxen locks that ...
... true love thou did'st see . And how should I know your true love From many another one ? O by his cockle * hat and staff , And by his sandal shoon . But chiefly by his face and mien , That were so fair to view ; His flaxen locks that ...
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... true love died for me , ' Tis meet my tears should flow . And will he ne'er come again ? Will he ne'er come again ? Ah ! no , he is dead and laid in his grave , For ever to remain . His cheek was redder than the rose , The com❜liest ...
... true love died for me , ' Tis meet my tears should flow . And will he ne'er come again ? Will he ne'er come again ? Ah ! no , he is dead and laid in his grave , For ever to remain . His cheek was redder than the rose , The com❜liest ...
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... true ! And art thou dead , thou much - lov'd youth , And didst thou die for me ? Then farewell home ; for , evermore A pilgrim I will be . But first upon my true love's grave My weary limbs I'll lay , And thrice I'll kiss the green ...
... true ! And art thou dead , thou much - lov'd youth , And didst thou die for me ? Then farewell home ; for , evermore A pilgrim I will be . But first upon my true love's grave My weary limbs I'll lay , And thrice I'll kiss the green ...
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... true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart , Shall break thy Edwin's too . COLIN AND LUCY . OF [ By Tickell . ] F Leinster , fam'd for maidens fair , Bright Lucy was the grace ; Nor e'er did Liffy's limpid stream Reflect a fairer ...
... true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart , Shall break thy Edwin's too . COLIN AND LUCY . OF [ By Tickell . ] F Leinster , fam'd for maidens fair , Bright Lucy was the grace ; Nor e'er did Liffy's limpid stream Reflect a fairer ...
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amorous Amynta Anacreon Ballad beauty beauty's blest bliss bloom bosom breast breath bright Celia charms cheek Chloe Chloris cried cruel Cupid Damon dart dear delight despair dost e'er epigram ev'ry eyes face fair faithless fancy fate fear flame fond gentle give grace grove heart heaven hope JOHN AIKIN kind kiss know my love lady languish lily lips live Lochinvar lov'd lover lyre Lyric Lyric poetry maid mind Muses nature ne'er Netherby never nightingale numbers nymph o'er pain passion pastoral Phoebe Phyllis pieces pity plain pleasure poetical poetry prove R. B. SHERIDAN rose Sappho scorn shade shepherd sigh SILAS WRIGHT sing smile SOAME JENYNS soft song song-writing soul swain sweet taste tears tell tender thee thine thou thought thro Tibullus trembling true Twas vex'd vows wanton weep winds young youth
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Página 243 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Página 315 - River where ford there was none : But ere he alighted at Netherby gate The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Página 243 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Página 278 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father.' The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand The tempest gather'd o'er her.
Página 283 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Página 315 - HERON'S SONG. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best, And save his good broadsword he weapons had none ; He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Página 38 - Till quite dejected with my scorn, He left me to my pride ; And sought a solitude forlorn, In secret, where he died. " But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. " And there forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die ; 'Tvvas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.
Página 33 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 316 - Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword (For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word), "O, come ye in peace here, or come ye in war Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
Página 245 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.