The Songs of England and Scotland, Volume 1J. Cochrane, 1835 - Ballads, English |
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... Despair disdains the healing ! Thus those desires that boil so high In any mortal lover , When Reason cannot make them die , Discretion them must cover . Yet when Discretion doth bereave The plaints that I should utter , Then your ...
... Despair disdains the healing ! Thus those desires that boil so high In any mortal lover , When Reason cannot make them die , Discretion them must cover . Yet when Discretion doth bereave The plaints that I should utter , Then your ...
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... despair , delight , disdain : Though dead in midst of life ; In peace , and yet at strife . [ Francis Davison was the son of the Secretary of that name to Queen Elizabeth , " who suffered , " says Ritson , " so much through that ...
... despair , delight , disdain : Though dead in midst of life ; In peace , and yet at strife . [ Francis Davison was the son of the Secretary of that name to Queen Elizabeth , " who suffered , " says Ritson , " so much through that ...
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... despair , No misery amaze me , Nor yet for want I care : I have lost a world itself , My earthly heaven , adieu ! Since she , alas ! hath left me , Falero , lero , loo . [ Ritson by an ingenious construction supposes this pretty song to ...
... despair , No misery amaze me , Nor yet for want I care : I have lost a world itself , My earthly heaven , adieu ! Since she , alas ! hath left me , Falero , lero , loo . [ Ritson by an ingenious construction supposes this pretty song to ...
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THE SHEPHERD'S RESOLUTION . GEORGE WITHER . Shall I wasting in despair , Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care ' Cause another's rosy are ; Be she fairer than the day , Or the flowery meads in May ; If she be not ...
THE SHEPHERD'S RESOLUTION . GEORGE WITHER . Shall I wasting in despair , Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care ' Cause another's rosy are ; Be she fairer than the day , Or the flowery meads in May ; If she be not ...
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... despair : If she love me , this believe , I will die , ere she shall grieve . If she slight me when I woo I can scorn and let her go : If she be not fit for me , What care I for whom she be . [ From his " Mistresse of Philarete , " 1622 ...
... despair : If she love me , this believe , I will die , ere she shall grieve . If she slight me when I woo I can scorn and let her go : If she be not fit for me , What care I for whom she be . [ From his " Mistresse of Philarete , " 1622 ...
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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