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A Short Discourse on Eternity Michael Wigglesworth	If we thereby Eternity to measure should...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
America, A Prophecy William Blake	But dumb till that dread day when Orc assay'd his fierce...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman Edmund Spenser	So after long pursuit and vain assay, When I all weary had the chase forsook, The gentle deer return'd the self-same way, Thinking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote Her Name Edmund Spenser	"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Hymne of Heavenly Love Edmund Spenser	Th'Almighty, seeing their so bold assay, Kindled the flame of his consuming yre, And with his onely breath them blew away From...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Imitation of Spenser William Blake	For brutish Pan in vain might thee assay With tinkling sounds to dash thy nervous verse, Sound without sense; yet in his rude affray,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arcades John Milton	I will assay, her worth to celebrate, And so attend ye toward her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arcades. John Milton	I will assay, her worth to celebrate, And so attend ye toward her glittering state; Where ye may all that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Colyn cloute John Skelton	But slumbre forth and slepe, And assay to crepe Within the noble walles Of the kynges halles, To fat theyr bodyes full, Theyr...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Complaint of a Lover that Defied Love Henry Howard	within the dore. 1 'Abroad,' quoth my desire, 'assay to set thy foot ; Where thou shalt find the savour sweet ; for sprung is every root. And to thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
DEATH. Saseun Antonio Olusegun	What death can assay the One who a companion Makes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Detail of Long Narrative Kaleb Alexander Suedfeld	Assay me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Heroic Stanzas John Dryden	He fought to end our fighting and assay'd To stanch the blood by breathing of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Horse Sense 1 Wallace Dean LaBenne	for further...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - part 02 Torquato Tasso	XXV...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - part 06 Torquato Tasso	LXXXIX...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - part 01 Torquato Tasso	Otho not chosen doth his strength assay, But from his saddle tumbleth in the dust, And captive to the town is sent away: Tancred...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Measured In Minutes Wallace Dean LaBenne	Every instant matters in the total...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again John Keats	Must I burn through; once more humbly assay The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Orlando Furioso Canto 17 Ludovico Ariosto	Of this ourselves have made a clear assay, As well as those who lived in days of yore; Consigned to ravening wolves, ordained to keep...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Orlando Furioso Canto 5 Ludovico Ariosto	Or, after, of this love he made assay: But judge,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Paradise Lost: Book 03 John Milton	And man there plac'd, with purpose to assay If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert; and shall pervert; ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peinture. A Panegyrick To The best Picture Of Friendship, M Richard Lovelace	Cheat-HOCUS-POCUS-Nature an assay O' th' spring affords us: praesto, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peinture. A Panegyrick To The best Picture Of Friendship, Mr. Pet. Lilly. Richard Lovelace	Cheat-HOCUS-POCUS-Nature an assay O' th' spring affords us: praesto, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Philomela Matthew Arnold	Dost thou once more assay Thy flight, and feel come over thee, Poor fugitive, the feathery change Once more, and once...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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