 And underfoot the heavy hour strews dust, And overhead strange weathers burn and bite ; And where the red was, lo the bloodless white, And where truth was, the likeness of a liar, And where day was, the likeness of the night ; This is the end of every...  Middle Greyness - Page 398by Alec John Dawson - 1897 - 458 pagesFull view - About this book
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...likeness of a liar, And where day was, the likeness of the night ; This is the end of every man's desire. Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickeneth, Heed well...life is death. This is the end of every man's desire. RONDEL. KISSING her hair I sat against her feet, Wove and unwove it, wound and found it sweet ; Made... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1866 - 104 pages
...liar ; And, where day was, the likeness of the night. This is the end of every man's desire. L'ENVOT. Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickeneth, Heed well this rhyme before your pleasure tire : For sweet is life, but after life is death. This is the end of every man's desire. 2. ITYLTJS. Swallow,... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1867 - 340 pages
...white, And where day was, the likeness of the night : This is the end of every man's desire. L'EtfVOY. Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickeneth, Heed well...is death : This is the end of every man's desire. RONDEL. KISSING her hair I sat against her feet, Wove and unwove it, wound and found it sweet ; Made... | |
 | English fiction - 728 pages
...SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. CHAPTER I. • Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickcneth. Heed well (his rhyme before your pleasure tire ; For life is sweet,...is death : This is the end of every man's desire.' AND Mrs. Brandon shut the book, and leaned back in the low deep chair, with long eyes narrowing into... | |
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...to suffocate her, with the light, mocking laughter smiting her like a blow. CHAPTER IV. FAUSTINE. " Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickeneth, Heed well...is death, This is the end of every man's desire." |ELLA had called Lady Aylmer an intriguante with a pretty face, and, though Bella's words have mostly... | |
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...liar, And where day was, the likeness of the night ; This is the end of every man's desire. L'ENVOY. Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickeneth, Heed well this rhyme before your pleasure tire j For life is sweet, but after life is death. This is the end of every man's desire. RONDEL. KISSING... | |
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...night : This is the end of every man's desire. L'ENVOY. Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickeneth, Meed well this rhyme before your pleasure tire ; For life...life is death. This is the end of every man's desire BEFORE THE MIRROR. (VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE.] INSCRIBED TO JA WHISTLER. WHITE rose in red rcfse-garden... | |
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...liar, And where day was, the likeness of the night ; This is the end of every man's desire. L'ENVOY Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickeneth, Heed well...life is death. This is the end of every man's desire. RONDEL KISSING her hair I sat against her feet, Wove and unwove it, wound and found it sweet ; Made... | |
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...a liar, And where day was, the likeness of the night ; This is the end of every man's desire. ENVOI Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickeneth, Heed well...life is death. This is the end of every man's desire. EROTION 0 WEET for a little even to fear, and sweet, ^ O love, to lay down fear at love's fair feet;... | |
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...night. This is thé end of every man's désire. L'ENVOI. Princes, and ye whom pleasure quickencth, Hced well this rhyme before your pleasure tire ; For life is sweet, but afler life is death. This is thé end of every man's désire. SWINBCRNB, Poems and Hallads, 1866. Corrigé... | |
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