Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles: Delia - Diana
by Samuel Daniel Henry Constable
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896. ... XXV False hope prolongs my ever certain grief, Traitor to me, and faithful to my love. A thousand times it promised me relief, Yet never any true effect I prove. Oft when I find in her no truth at all, I banish her, and blame her treachery; Yet soon again I must her back recall; As one that dies without her company. Thus often, as I chase my hope from me, Straightway she hastes her unto Delia's ...
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- ELIZABETHAN SONNET-CYCLES
- EDITED BY
- MARTHA FOOTE CROW
- DELIA
- SAMUEL DANIEL
- DIANA
- HENRY CONSTABLE
- DELIA
- SAMUEL DANIEL
- SAMUEL DANIEL
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
- THE LADY MARY
- COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE
- TO DELIA
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- II
- III
- IV
- V
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- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- XXXI
- XXXII
- XXXIII
- XXXIV
- XXXV
- XXXVI
- XXXVII
- XXXVIII
- XXXIX
- XL
- XLI
- XLII
- XLIII
- XLIV
- XLV
- XLVI
- XLVII
- XLVIII
- XLIX
- L
- LI
- LII
- LIII
- LIV
- LV
- LVI
- LVII
- REJECTED SONNETS
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- II
- III
- IV
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- VI
- VII
- DIANA
- HENRY CONSTABLE
- HENRY CONSTABLE
- DIANA
- UNTO HER MAJESTY'S SACRED HONOURABLE MAIDS
- TO HIS MISTRESS
- TO HIS ABSENT DIANA
- THE FIRST DECADE
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- VII
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- IX
- X
- THE SECOND DECADE
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- THE THIRD DECADE
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- IX
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- THE FOURTH DECADE
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- THE FIFTH DECADE
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- THE SIXTH DECADE
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- THE SEVENTH DECADE
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- THE EIGHTH DECADE
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- A CALCULATION UPON THE BIRTH OF AN HONOURABLE LADY'S DAUGHTER, BORN IN THE YEAR 1588 AND ON A FRIDAY
- SONNETS FROM THE MANUSCRIPT EDITION, NOT FOUND IN THAT OF 1594
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