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“spring” + ring across the centuries

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pre-1500 1 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 2 / 90 1600s 6 / 176 1650s 1 / 58 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 10 / 684 1850s 32 / 942 1900s 36 / 1120 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1550s · 2 with this theme Show all eras

Ring out your bells
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Ring out your bells

by Sir Philip Sidney · English

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30 November 1554 - 17 October 1586 (~32)

To the Spring
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To the Spring

by Sir John Davies · English

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16 April 1569 - 8 December 1626 (~57)

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