A Sweet Contention Between Love, His Mistress, And Beauty (Nicholas Breton Poems)
Love and my mistress were at strife Who had the greatest power on me:Betwixt them both, oh, what a life! Nay, what ...
Love and my mistress were at strife Who had the greatest power on me:Betwixt them both, oh, what a life! Nay, what ...
Sweet Phyllis, if a silly swain May sue to thee for grace,See not thy loving shepherd slain With looking on thy face;But ...
Good Muse, rock me asleepWith some sweet harmony;The weary eye is not to keepThy wary company.Sweet Love, begone awhile,Thou knowest ...
Oh that I could write a story Of love's dealing with affection!How he makes the spirit sorry That is touch'd with his ...
On a hill there grows a flower, Fair befall the dainty sweet!By that flower there is a bower Where the heavenly Muses ...
IN the merry month of May,In a morn by break of day,Forth I walk'd by the wood-sideWhen as May was ...
Foolish love is only folly;Wanton love is too unholy;Greedy love is covetous;Idle love is frivolous;But the gracious love is itThat ...
Sweet birds! that sit and sing among the shady valleys,And see how sweetly Phyllis walks amid her garden alleys,Go round ...
Say that I should say I love ye, Would you say 'tis but a saying?But if Love in prayers move ye, Will ...
Pretty twinkling starry eyes!How did Nature first deviseSuch a sparkling in your sightAs to give Love such delightAs to make ...
Say that I should say I love ye,Would you say 'tis but a saying?But if love in prayers move ye,Will ...
Lovely kind, and kindly loving,Such a mind were worth the moving;Truly fair, and fairly true—Where are all these, but in ...
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