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Phillis 2
2023-12-06Love guards the roses of thy lips And flies about them like a bee; If I approach he forward skips, And if I kiss he stingeth me. Love in thine eyes do...
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Tiriel
2023-12-06And agèd Tiriel stood before the gates of his beautiful palace With Myratana, once the Queen of all the western plains; But now his eyes were d...
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To His Coy Love
2023-12-06I pray thee, leave, love me no more, Call home the heart you gave me! I but in vain that saint adore That can but will not save me. These poor half-ki...
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
2023-12-06Shall I compare thee to a Summer‘s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer‘...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
2023-12-06Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods or steepy mountain yields. An...
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十五)
2023-12-06xv To Chloe's breast young Cupid slyly stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole....
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十四)
2023-12-06xiv When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether Her knees and elbows are only glued together....
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十三)
2023-12-06xiii Imitation of Pope: a compliment to the Ladies Wondrous the gods, more wondrous are the men, More wondrous, wondrous still, the cock and hen, More...
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十二)
2023-12-06xii On the virginity of the Virgin Mary and Johanna Southcott Whate'er is done to her she cannot know, And if you'll ask her she will swear it...
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Miscellaneous Epigrams(十一)
2023-12-06xi When France got free, Europe, 'twixt fools and knaves, Were savage first to France, and after —— slaves....