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• Agincourt

  Fair stood the wind for France
  When we our sails advance,
  Nor now to prove our chance …

  Michael Drayton

• To the Virginian Voyage

  You brave heroic minds
  Worthy your country's name,
  That honour still pursue; …

  Michael Drayton

• Her Reply

  If all the world and love were young,
  And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
  These pretty pleasures might me move …

  Sir Walter Raleigh

• Silvia

  Who is Silvia? What is she?
  That all our swains commend her?
  Holy, fair, and wise is she; …

  William Shakespeare

• The Blossom

  On a day—alack the day!—
  Love, whose month is ever May,
  Spied a blossom passing fair …

  William Shakespeare

• Spring and Winteri

  When daisies pied and violets blue,
  And lady-smocks all silver-white,
  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue …

  William Shakespeare

• Spring and Winterii

  When icicles hang by the wall,
  And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
  And Tom bears logs into the hall, …

  William Shakespeare

• Fairy Landi

  Over hill, over dale,
  Thorough bush, thorough brier,
  Over park, over pale, …

  William Shakespeare

• Fairy Landii

  You spotted snakes with double tongue,
  Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
  Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong; …

  William Shakespeare

• Fairy Landiii

  Come unto these yellow sands,
  And then take hands:
  Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd,— …

  William Shakespeare

• Fairy Landiv

  Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
  In a cowslip's bell I lie;
  There I couch when owls do cry. …

  William Shakespeare

• Fairy Landv

  Full fathom five thy father lies;
  Of his bones are coral made;
  Those are pearls that were his eyes: …

  William Shakespeare

• Sweet-and-Twenty

  O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming?
  O, stay and hear! your true love 's coming,
  That can sing both high and low: …

  William Shakespeare

• Dirge

  Come away, come away, death,
  And in sad cypres let me be laid;
  Fly away, fly away, breath; …

  William Shakespeare

• Under the Greenwood Tree

  Amiens sings:UNDER the greenwood tree,
  Who loves to lie with me,
  And turn his merry note …

  William Shakespeare

• Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind

  Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
  Thou art not so unkind
  As man's ingratitude; …

  William Shakespeare

• It was a Lover and his Lass

  It was a lover and his lass,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
  That o'er the green corn-field did pass, …

  William Shakespeare

• Take, O take those Lips away

  Take, O take those lips away,
  That so sweetly were forsworn;
  And those eyes, the break of day, …

  William Shakespeare

• Aubade

  Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
  And Phoebus 'gins arise,
  His steeds to water at those springs …

  William Shakespeare

• Fidele

  Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
  Nor the furious winter's rages;
  Thou thy worldly task hast done, …

  William Shakespeare

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