The First Part of Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets: Together with Several Original Poems, Part 6Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand., 1716 |
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... mournful Song . Ah well a Day ! How long muft 1 endure This pining Pain ? Or who fhall work my Cure ? Fond Love no Cure will have ; feeks no Reposes Delights in Grief ; nor any Measure knows . And now the Moon begins in Clouds to rife ...
... mournful Song . Ah well a Day ! How long muft 1 endure This pining Pain ? Or who fhall work my Cure ? Fond Love no Cure will have ; feeks no Reposes Delights in Grief ; nor any Measure knows . And now the Moon begins in Clouds to rife ...
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... mournful Manner art thou found , Unthankful Lad , when all things fmile around ? Hear how the Lark and Linnet jointly fing ! Their Notes foft - warb'ling to the gladsome Spring . COLINET . Tho ' foft their Notes , not fo my wayward Fate ...
... mournful Manner art thou found , Unthankful Lad , when all things fmile around ? Hear how the Lark and Linnet jointly fing ! Their Notes foft - warb'ling to the gladsome Spring . COLINET . Tho ' foft their Notes , not fo my wayward Fate ...
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... mournful Song becomes a mournful Muse . Faft by the River on a Bank he fate , To weep a lovely Maid's untimely Fate , Fair Stella hight : A lovely Maid was the , Whofe Fate he wept ; a faithful Shepherd he . Awake my Pipe ; in ev'ry ...
... mournful Song becomes a mournful Muse . Faft by the River on a Bank he fate , To weep a lovely Maid's untimely Fate , Fair Stella hight : A lovely Maid was the , Whofe Fate he wept ; a faithful Shepherd he . Awake my Pipe ; in ev'ry ...
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... mournful Rome might ftill her Pompey find , There , and in Cato's free unconquer'd Mind . He , while in deep fufpence the World yet lay , Anxious and doubtful whom it should obey , Hatred avow'd to Pompey's felf did bear , Tho ' his ...
... mournful Rome might ftill her Pompey find , There , and in Cato's free unconquer'd Mind . He , while in deep fufpence the World yet lay , Anxious and doubtful whom it should obey , Hatred avow'd to Pompey's felf did bear , Tho ' his ...
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... mournful Freight they wafted to the Shore : Sorrows , that might Tears ev'n from Cato gain , And teach the rigid Stoick to complain . When long the fad Cornelia's Pray'rs , in vain , Had try'd the flying Navy to detain , w With Sextus ...
... mournful Freight they wafted to the Shore : Sorrows , that might Tears ev'n from Cato gain , And teach the rigid Stoick to complain . When long the fad Cornelia's Pray'rs , in vain , Had try'd the flying Navy to detain , w With Sextus ...
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