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Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares, Anxious sighs, untimely tears. Fly, fly to courts; Fly to fond worldlings’ sports, Where strain’d sardonic smiles are glossing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will; Where mirth’s but mummery; And sorrows only real be!
Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares, Anxious sighs, untimely tears. Fly, fly to courts; Fly to fond worldlings’ sports, Where strain’d sardonic smiles are glossing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will; Where mirth’s but mummery; And sorrows only real be!
Approximate author period: c. 1585 AD · renaissance
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- Sir Walter Raleigh
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- Approximate author period: c. 1585 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1552–1618)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 151 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: COURT
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