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Front Matter |
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I. |
Oh pleasing thoughts, apprentices of love |
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II. |
You sacred sea-nymphs pleasantly disporting |
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III. |
In fancy’s world an Atlas have I been |
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IV. |
Long hath my sufferance laboured to enforce |
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V. |
Ah pale and dying infant of the spring |
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VI. |
It is not death which wretched men call dying |
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VII. |
How languisheth the primrose of love’s garden! |
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VIII. |
No stars her eyes to clear the wandering night |
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IX. |
The dewy roseate Morn had with her hairs |
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X. |
The rumour runs that here in Isis swim |
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XI. |
My frail and earthly bark, by reason’s guide |
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XII. |
Ah, trees, why fall your leaves so fast? |
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XIII. |
Love guides the roses of thy lips |
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XIV. |
I wrote in Mirrha’s bark, and as I wrote |
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XVII. |
Ah, fleeting weal! ah, sly deluding sleep |
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XVIII. |
As where two raging venoms are united |
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XIX. |
Thou tyrannising monarch that dost tire |
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XX. |
Some praise the looks, and others praise the locks |
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XXI. |
Ye heralds of my heart, mine ardent groans |
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XXII. |
Fair art thou, Phillis, ay, so fair, sweet maid |
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XXIII. |
Burst, burst, poor heart! Thou hast no longer hope |
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XXIV. |
No glory makes me glorious or glad |
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XXV. |
I wage the combat with two mighty foes |
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XXVI. |
I ’ll teach thee, lovely Phillis, what love is |
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XXVII. |
Fair eyes, whilst fearful I your fair admire |
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XXVIII. |
Not causeless were you christened, gentle flowers |
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XXIX. |
I feel myself endangered beyond reason |
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XXX. |
I do compare unto thy youthly clear |
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XXXI. |
Devoid of reason, thrall to foolish ire |
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XXXII. |
A thousand times to think and think the same |
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XXXIII. |
When first sweet Phillis, whom I must adore |
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XXXIV. |
I would in rich and golden-coloured rain |
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XXXV. |
I hope and fear, I pray and hold my peace |
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XXXVI. |
If so I seek the shades, I presently do see |
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XXXVII. |
These fierce incessant waves that stream along my face |
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XXXVIII. |
Who lives enthralled to Cupid and his flame |
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XXXIX. |
My matchless mistress, whose delicious eyes |
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XL. |
Resembling none, and none so poor as I |