The Songs of England and Scotland, Volume 1J. Cochrane, 1835 - Ballads, English |
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... breath is short ; Youth is nimble , Age is lame : Youth is hot and bold , Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild and Age is tame , Age , I do abhor thee , Youth , I do adore thee ; O , my love , my love is young : 24 SONGS OF ENGLAND AND ...
... breath is short ; Youth is nimble , Age is lame : Youth is hot and bold , Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild and Age is tame , Age , I do abhor thee , Youth , I do adore thee ; O , my love , my love is young : 24 SONGS OF ENGLAND AND ...
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... breath for sweetness speed ; The diamond darkens in the ring ; When she appears , the moon looks dead , As when Sol lifts his radiant head . In a little publication bearing date 1663 , entitled , " A crew of Kind London Gossips , to ...
... breath for sweetness speed ; The diamond darkens in the ring ; When she appears , the moon looks dead , As when Sol lifts his radiant head . In a little publication bearing date 1663 , entitled , " A crew of Kind London Gossips , to ...
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... breath : Who hath his life from rumours freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat : Whose state can neither flatterers feed , Nor ruin make oppressors great : Who envies none , whom chance doth raise , Or vice who never understood ...
... breath : Who hath his life from rumours freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat : Whose state can neither flatterers feed , Nor ruin make oppressors great : Who envies none , whom chance doth raise , Or vice who never understood ...
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... breath ; There is no drinking after death . Wine wakes the heart up , wakes the wit , There is no cure ' gainst age but it . It helps the head - ache , cough and ptisic , And is for all diseases physic . Then let us swill , boys , for ...
... breath ; There is no drinking after death . Wine wakes the heart up , wakes the wit , There is no cure ' gainst age but it . It helps the head - ache , cough and ptisic , And is for all diseases physic . Then let us swill , boys , for ...
Page 48
... breath , whose native smell Indian odours doth excel . Oh , then speak , thou fairest fair , Kill not him that vows to serve thee ; But perfume this neighbouring air Else dull silence sure , will starve me : " Tis a word that's quickly ...
... breath , whose native smell Indian odours doth excel . Oh , then speak , thou fairest fair , Kill not him that vows to serve thee ; But perfume this neighbouring air Else dull silence sure , will starve me : " Tis a word that's quickly ...
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Amynta ballad BARRY CORNWALL beauty BEN JONSON birds blest bliss Born bosom bowers breast breath bright Burns Celia CHARLES DIBDIN charms cheek Crazy Jane dear delight despair disdain divine doth drink Dryden EDMUND WALLER English eyes fair Falero flowers garland gentle give grace grove happy HARRY CAREY hath heart JOHN JOHN DRYDEN JOHN GAY JOHN WOLCOT JONSON joys kind kiss Kytt Lady lero lips live look Lord LORD BYRON loue lov'd Love's lover maid MATTHEW PRIOR Minstrels ne'er never night nymph o'er pain passion Percy Phillida Phillis pleasure Poems poetry poets poor pride printed Queen R. B. SHERIDAN Ritson rose says shepherd sighs sing smiles soft song sorrow soul spring sung swain sweet Molly tears tell tender thee thine THOMAS CAREW thought thro Twas verses voice vows wanton weep wind wine youth