Category: Poetry
In sending out this little anthology of seventeenth-century love-verses, I must say a few words by way of explanation or apology. Some eighteen months ago I published a collection of "Lyrics from the Song-books of the Elizabethan Age" (J. C. Nimmo), and recently I issued a sec...
AS I traversed to and fro, And in the fields was walking, I chanced to hear two sisters That secretly were talking. The younger to the elder said, Prithee why do'st not marry? I...
5. Part 5MAIDS[66] they are grown so coy of late Forsooth they will not marry; Though they be in their teens and past, They say that they can tarry. But if they knew how sweet a thing It...
4. Part 4Yet I such further favour won By suit and pleasing play, She vow'd what now was left undone Should finish'd be in May; And though perplex'd with such delay As more augments desi...
2. Part 2Shew thy bosom and then hide it; License touching and then chide it; Give a grant and then forbear it, Offer something and forswear it; Ask where all our shame is gone; Call us...
1. Part 1In sending out this little anthology of seventeenth-century love-verses, I must say a few words by way of explanation or apology. Some eighteen months ago I published a collecti...
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