'The Poet of Poets.': The Love-verse from the Minor Poems of Edmund Spenser

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E. Stock, 1893 - 228 halaman
 

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Halaman 65 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Halaman ix - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Halaman 200 - With Barnaby the bright, From whence declining daily by degrees, He somewhat loseth of his heat and light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees.
Halaman 211 - Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal day, which Is not long: Sweet Thames ! run softly, till I end my song. There in a meadow by the river's side A flock of nymphs I chanced to espy...
Halaman 205 - Then what ye do, albe it good or ill. All night therefore attend your merry play, For it will...
Halaman 191 - ... than Hesperus his head doth rear. Come now, ye damsels, daughters of delight, Help quickly her to dight. But first come ye fair hours, which were begot In Jove's sweet paradise of Day and Night, Which do the seasons of the year allot, And all that ever in this world is fair Do make and still repair.
Halaman 191 - The whiles the woods shall answer, and your echo ring. Now is my love all ready forth to come: Let all the virgins therefore well await: And ye fresh boys, that tend upon her groom, Prepare yourselves, for he is coming straight.
Halaman 218 - Great England's glory and the world's wide wonder, Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder, And Hercules' two pillars standing near Did make to quake and fear : Fair branch of honour, flower of chivalry!
Halaman 213 - Come softly swimming down along the Lee ; Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow which doth the top of Pindus strew Did never whiter shew, Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be For love of Leda, whiter did appear...
Halaman 199 - ... wine, That they may sweat, and drunken be withal. Crown ye god Bacchus with a coronal, And Hymen also crown with wreaths of vine; And let the Graces dance unto the rest, For they can do it best: The whiles the maidens do their carol sing, To which the woods shall answer, and their echo ring.

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