The Wanton Wife of Bath (Anonymous British Poems)
In Bath a wanton wife did dwelle,As Chaucer he doth write,Who did in pleasure spend her dayes,And many a fond ...
In Bath a wanton wife did dwelle,As Chaucer he doth write,Who did in pleasure spend her dayes,And many a fond ...
PART ICOME, gentle maidens, gather round.Bring sprigs of rosemary and rue,Strew virgin lilies on the ground,And the wild rose embalm'd ...
WHEN Cupid, wanton boy, was young,His wings unfledg'd, and rude his tongue,He loiter'd in Arcadian bowers,And hid his bow in ...
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
I travell'd on, seeing the hill, where lay My expectation. ...
THOU surely art rash, with thy pinions of gold, To be flitting thus far from thy home in the ...
HAIL, infant Year! my waking eyeWith rapture meets thy dawn;Hope, fairest offspring of the sky,Illumes thy cloudless morn.Vexation hence! and ...
REWARDS of earth, Nobility and Fame, To senses glory and to conscience woe, How little be you for so great ...
NExt Heaven my Vows to thee (O Sacred Muse! ) I offer'd up, nor didst thou them refuse. O Queen ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Fond man, that canst believe her blood Will from those purple channels flow; Or that the pure untainted flood Can ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
I DREAM'D I lay where flowers were springing Gaily in the sunny beam; List'ning to the wild birds singing, By ...
1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest; I withdraw from the still woods I loved; I will ...
Love, born in Greece, of late fled from his native place, Forc'd by a tedious proof, that Turkish harden'd heart ...
If you refuse me once, and think again, I will complain. You are deceiv'd, love is no work of art, ...
Close on the margin of a brawling brook That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot; O'ershadow'd by broad ...
When SUPERSTITION rul'd the land And Priestcraft shackled Reason, At GODSTOW dwelt a goodly band, Grey monks they were, and ...
I did not live until this time Crown'd my felicity, When I could say without a crime, I am not ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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