The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With Memoir and Critical Dissertations, Τόμος 5W.P. Nimmo, 1868 |
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Alcyon amongst Arthur Gorges beams beasts beauty behold bliss bower brave bright celestial Colin cruel Cynthia dart dear death delight doth dreadful earth earthly echo ring EDMUND SPENSER eternal eyes fair fair Lady fairest fear feed fire flowers gentle glorious glory golden goodly grace grief happy hast hate hath heart heaven heavenly honour Hymen immortal John Spenser Lady lament light live Lord love's mighty mind mortal mourn Muse naught never nigh noble Nymphs pain peerless price Penelope Devereux plaint pleasure praise pride quoth rest sacred Sapience scorn seek seem'd shepherd shew sight sing Sir Philip Sidney Sith skill song sore sorrow soul Spenser spoil sprite sweet thee thereof Thessaly things thou dost thought twixt unto vex'd ween weep whilst wight wondrous wont Woodgods woods worthy wretched
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Σελίδα 106 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...
Σελίδα 280 - And for the guerdon of their glorious merit May heavenly tabernacles there inherit, Of blessed saints for to increase the count. So let us rest, sweet love, in hope of this, And cease till then our timely joys to sing; The woods no more us answer, nor our echo ring.
Σελίδα 274 - When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces : Bring her up to th...
Σελίδα 275 - And sprinkle all the posts and walls with wine, That they may sweat, and drunken be withal. Crown ye God Bacchus with a coronal, And Hymen also crown with wreaths of vine; And let the Graces dance unto the rest, For they can do it best: The whiles the maidens do their carol sing, .To which the woods shall answer, and their echo ring.
Σελίδα 272 - Her modest eyes, abashed to behold So many gazers as on her do stare, Upon the lowly ground affixed are; Ne dare lift up her countenance too bold, But blush to heare her prayses sung so loud, So farre from being proud.
Σελίδα 269 - gins to show his glorious head. Hark! how the cheerful birds do chant their lays And carol of Love's praise.
Σελίδα 274 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty, That suffers not one look to glance awry, Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Σελίδα 271 - Hymen!" they do shout; That even to the heavens their shouting shrill Doth reach, and all the firmament doth fill; To which the people standing all about, As in approvance do thereto applaud, And loud advance her laud; And evermore they "Hymen, Hymen!
Σελίδα 208 - To deck their bridegrooms' posies, Against the bridal day, which was not long: Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. With that, I saw two swans of goodly hue Come softly swimming down along the lee; Two fairer birds I yet did never see. The snow which doth the top of Pindus...
Σελίδα 216 - That being now with her huge brightnesse dazed, Base thing I can no more endure to view : But, looking still on her, I stand amazed At wondrous sight of so celestiall hew. So when my toung would speak her praises dew, It stopped is with thoughts...