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Fair, and soft, and gay and young
Fairest isle, all isles excelling
False though she be to me and love
Fluttering spread thy purple pinion
Follow a shadow, it still flies you
For Love's sake kiss me once again
For me my fair a wreath has wove
From all uneasy Passions free

From Oberon, in fairye land

From the court to the cottage convey me away

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Hark, hark! the lark at Heaveh's gate sings

Hence away, thou syren, leave me

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Here's a bank with rich cowslips and cuckoo buds strewn

Her eyes are like the morning bright

He that loves a rosy cheek

How happy is he born or taught

How hardly I conceal'd my tears

How pleas'd within my native bowers

I.

I cannot change as others do

1 cannot eat but little meat

If all the world and love were young

If love be life, I long to die

If wine and music have the power

I have been in love, in debt, and in drink

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I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name

It is not that I love you less

It is not beauty I demand

I told my nymph, I told her true

I've pluck'd the woodbine and lilac so pale

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Jolly mortals, fill your glasses

J.

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Kind relief in all my pain

Keep on your mask and hide your eye

Know Celia since thou art so proud

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Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle

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M.

Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve
Merciless love, whom Nature hath denied

Mine be a cot beside the hill

Mistaken fair, lay Sherlock by

My days have been so wondrous free

My goddess Lydia, heavenly fair

N.

No longer, Daphne I admire

No more shall meads be deck'd with flowers
Not, Celia, that I juster am

Not the soft sighs of vernal gales

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Oh the moment was sad when my love and I parted

Oh! what a plague is love

On the waves the wind was sleeping

O Mary, I love thee with purest devotion

O Nancy, wilt thou go with me

On a bank beside a willow

On Belvidera's bosom lying

Once more Love's mighty charms are broke

One kind kiss before we part

On Richmond Hill there lives a lass

Once more, enchanting maid, adieu !

Opening buds began to shew

Orpheus, with his lute made trees

Over the mountains

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Saw you the nymph whom I adore

Say, Myra, why is gentle love

Says my uncle, "I pray you discover"
See how fair Corinna lies

See, see she wakes, Sabina wakes

See the chariot at hand here of Love
Shall I like a hermit dwell

Shall I wasting in despair

She is not fair to outward view

She walks in beauty, like the night
Since sounding drums and rising war
Since truth has left the shepherd's tongue
Slow spreads the gloom my soul desires
Spirit of the summer breeze

Still to be neat, still to be drest
Sweet are the charms of her I love

T.

Take, oh take those lips away
Tell me dearest what is love?
Tell me no more how fair she is
Tell me not sweet I am unkind

Tell me not of a face that's fair

Tell me not that thou dost love me

That which her slender waist confined

The Assyrian came down like the wolf in the fold
The danger is over, the battle is past

The flame of love assuages

The fountains mingle with the river

The gentle swan with graceful pride

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The glories of our blood and state
The groves, the plains

The heavy hours are almost pass'd
The kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left
The larks awake the drowsy morn
The lovely Delia smiles again

The pride of every grove I chose

The rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a shower

The shape alone let others prize

The silver moon's enamour'd beam
The sun was sunk beneath the hill
The streams that wind amid the hills
The world was hush'd and nature lay
The wretch condemn'd with life to part
Think not my love when secret grief
Thou canst not boast of fortune's store
Thou sweetest minstrel of the grove
Though cruel you seem to my pain
Though I am young and cannot tell
Though time has not wreathed
Thou art lovelier than the coming
Thyrsis, unjustly you complain

'Tis evening, my sweet

'Tis mirth that fills the veins with blood

"Tis not your saying that you love

"Tis not the liquid brightness of those eyes

To all you ladies now at land

To be gazing on those charms

To charming Celia's arms I flew

To fair Fidele's grassy tomb

To Fanny fair could I impart

To the brook and the willow that heard him complain
*Twas on a summer's evening

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'Twas when the seas were roaring

Turn, lovely Gwen, be good and kind

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Upbraid me not, capricious fair

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Vainly now ye strive to charm me
Vulcan contrive me such a cap

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