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2023-12-06LOVE IN MAY. PASSERAT OFF with sleep, love, up from bed, This fair morn; See, for our eyes the rosy red New dawn is born; Now that skies are glad and ...
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2023-12-06MOONLIGHT. JACQUES TAHUREAU THE high Midnight was garlanding her head With many a shining star in shining skies, And, of her grace, a slumber on mine ...
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2023-12-06LADY'S TOMB. RONSARD AS in the gardens, all through May, the rose, Lovely, and young, and fair apparelled, Makes sunrise jealous of her rosy red, ...
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2023-12-06HIS LADY'S DEATH. RONSARD TWAIN that were foes, while Mary lived, are fled; One laurel-crowned abides in heaven, and one Beneath the earth has far...
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2023-12-06ON HIS LADY'S WAKING. RONSARD MY lady woke upon a morning fair, What time Apollo's chariot takes the skies, And, fain to fill with arrows from...
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2023-12-06OF HIS LADY'S OLD AGE. RONSAR WHEN you are very old, at evening You'll sit and spin beside the fire, and say, Humming my songs, 'Ah well, ...
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2023-12-06DEADLY KISSES. RONSARD All take these lips away; no more, No more such kisses give to me. My spirit faints for joy; I see Through mists of death the d...
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2023-12-06TO HIS YOUNG MISTRESS. RONSARD FAIR flower of fifteen springs, that still Art scarcely blossomed from the bud, Yet hast such store of evil will, A hea...
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2023-12-06TO THE MOON. RONSARD HIDE this one night thy crescent, kindly Moon; So shall Endymion faithful prove, and rest Loving and unawakened on thy breast; So...
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2023-12-06THE ROSE. RONSARD SEE, Mignonne, hath not the Rose, That this morning did unclose Her purple mantle to the light, Lost, before the day be dead, The gl...