Song: from Cynthia’s Revels (Ben Jonson Poems)
O, that joy so soon should waste! Or so sweet a bliss As a kiss Might not for ever last! ...
O, that joy so soon should waste! Or so sweet a bliss As a kiss Might not for ever last! ...
What one approves,another scorns,and thushis nature each discloses.You find the rosebushfull of thorns,I find thethornbush full of roses.(Arthur Guiterman)
Tune -- ANACREON IN HEAVEN O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd ...
Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell, Thine ear, and ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all ...
Feed a flame within, which so torments me That it both pains my heart, and yet contains me: 'Tis such ...
I've known a Heaven, like a Tent -- To wrap its shining Yards -- Pluck up its stakes, and disappear ...
They haven't got no noses, The fallen sons of Eve; Even the smell of roses Is not what they supposes; ...
The sleepy sound of a tea-time tide Slaps at the rocks the sun has dried, Too lazy, almost, to sink ...
I. June was not over Though past the fall, And the best of her roses Had yet to blow, When ...
In the outskirts of the village On the river's winding shores Stand the Occidental plane-trees, Stand the ancient sycamores. One ...
Here is this vale of sweet abiding, My ultimate and dulcet home, That gently dreams above the chiding of restless ...
The strong man's hand, the snow-cool head of age, The certain-footed sympathies of youth - These, and that lofty passion ...
O HOW much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The Rose looks fair, ...
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, ...
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, ...
I'd buy you a Babushka doll, my heart, and brush your ash-blonde hair until it gleams, were Russia and our ...
By the side of the brook, where the willow is waving Why sits the wan Youth, in his wedding-suit gay! ...
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...
Roses ruddy and roses white, What are the joys that my heart discloses? Sitting alone in the fading light Memories ...
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