William Alexander Poems

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1.
Sonet 75

My faithfull thoughts no dutie do omit;
But being fraughted with most zealous cares,
Are euer busied for my loues affaires,
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2.
Song X

Farewell sweet fancies, and once deare delights,
The treasures of my life, which made me proue
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3.
Sonet 51

I dream'd, the Nymph that ore my fancie raignes,
Came to a part whereas I paus'd alone;
Then said, what needs you in such sort to mone?
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4.
Sonet 1

Whil'st charming fancies moue me to reueale
The idle rauings of my brain-sicke youth,
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5.
Sonet 55

I enuie Neptune oft, not that his hands
Did build that loftie Ilions stately towers,
Nor that he Emperour of the liquid pow'rs,
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6.
Sonet 56

Lo, now reuiuing my disast'rous stile,
I prosecute the tenor of my fate,
And follow forth at dangers highest rate,
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7.
Sonet 57

Whil'st th'Apenin seems cloth'd with snows to vaunt,
As if that their pure white all hues did staine,
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8.
Sonet 58

Feare not, my Faire, that euer any chaunce
So shake the resolutions of my mind,
That like Demophon changing with the wind,
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9.
Sonet 59

Whil'st euery youth to entertaine his loue,
Did straine his wits as farre as they might reach,
And arming passions with a pow'rfull speach,
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10.
Sonet 6

Hvge hosts of thoughts imbattled in my brest,
Are euer busied with intestine warres,
And like to Cadmus earth-borne troupes at iarres,
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