The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, Volume 1Arthur Quiller-Couch |
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Page ix
... youth and the favourites he loved in days when he had much enthusiasm but little reading . A deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth we live to learn . Few of my contemporaries can erase - or ...
... youth and the favourites he loved in days when he had much enthusiasm but little reading . A deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth we live to learn . Few of my contemporaries can erase - or ...
Page 52
... youth , But now am old , as you see : Love likes not the falling fruit , Nor the withered tree . Know that Love is a careless child , And forgets promise past : He is blind , he is deaf when he list , And in faith never fast . His ...
... youth , But now am old , as you see : Love likes not the falling fruit , Nor the withered tree . Know that Love is a careless child , And forgets promise past : He is blind , he is deaf when he list , And in faith never fast . His ...
Page 55
Arthur Quiller-Couch. 29 . He . Farewell , farewell , the falsest youth That ever kist a woman's mouth ! I wish all maids be warn'd by me Never to trust man's curtesye ; For if we do but chance to bow , They'll use us then they care not ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. 29 . He . Farewell , farewell , the falsest youth That ever kist a woman's mouth ! I wish all maids be warn'd by me Never to trust man's curtesye ; For if we do but chance to bow , They'll use us then they care not ...
Page 71
... the snare , Learn at me to beware ; It is ane pain , and double trane Of endless woe and care ; For to refrain that danger plain , Flee always from the snare . 45 . In Youth is Pleasure Na harbour grene aslepe 71 ALEXANDER SCOTT.
... the snare , Learn at me to beware ; It is ane pain , and double trane Of endless woe and care ; For to refrain that danger plain , Flee always from the snare . 45 . In Youth is Pleasure Na harbour grene aslepe 71 ALEXANDER SCOTT.
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... youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Methought I walked still to and fro , And from her company I could not go— But when I waked it was not so : In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Therefore my hart is surely pyght Of ...
... youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Methought I walked still to and fro , And from her company I could not go— But when I waked it was not so : In youth is pleasure , in youth is pleasure . Therefore my hart is surely pyght Of ...
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ain love Gregory Annie of Lochroyan beauty birds breath bright Clerk Saunders dead dear delight dinna ye mind doth earth Edom eyes fair Fair Annie fate fear find my love flame flowers frae grace green gude hame hath heart Heaven honour ill death ill mither King kiss lady lass of Lochroyan leave lero light live Lord love-tokens lovers lullaby Lycidas maun mermaid merry morn nane ne'er never night out-owre the sea praise Queen rose sail'd it round sailing set my true-love shade Shining both clear shoe is frozen sigh sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep Song sorrow soul spak his ill spring stars sweet ta'en her young tears tell things thou art Timor Mortis conturbat tree true true Thomas true-love free wanton warlock weep wine wings witch nor wil ye ill woman Ye're youth