Songs of Three CenturiesJohn Greenleaf Whittier |
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... breast before : A poet's brain with finer store . 7 He wrote of love with high conceit And beauty reared above her height . EDMUND SPENSER . [ 1553-1599 . ] ANGELIC MINISTRY . AND is there care in Heaven ? And is there love In heavenly ...
... breast before : A poet's brain with finer store . 7 He wrote of love with high conceit And beauty reared above her height . EDMUND SPENSER . [ 1553-1599 . ] ANGELIC MINISTRY . AND is there care in Heaven ? And is there love In heavenly ...
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... breast . Enough , I reckon wealth ; A mean , the surest lot , That lies too high for base contempt , Too low for envy's shot . My wishes are but few , All easy to fulfil ; I make the limits of my power The bounds unto my will . I have ...
... breast . Enough , I reckon wealth ; A mean , the surest lot , That lies too high for base contempt , Too low for envy's shot . My wishes are but few , All easy to fulfil ; I make the limits of my power The bounds unto my will . I have ...
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... breast . LET me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments . Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds , Or bends with the remover to remove ; 0 it is an ever - fixéd mark , no ; That looks on tempests , and is ...
... breast . LET me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments . Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds , Or bends with the remover to remove ; 0 it is an ever - fixéd mark , no ; That looks on tempests , and is ...
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... breasts , Where never storms arise , Exchange ; and be awhile our guests : For stars , gaze on our eyes . The compass , love shall hourly sing , And , as he goes about the ring , We will not miss To tell each point he nameth with a kiss ...
... breasts , Where never storms arise , Exchange ; and be awhile our guests : For stars , gaze on our eyes . The compass , love shall hourly sing , And , as he goes about the ring , We will not miss To tell each point he nameth with a kiss ...
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... breast ; Sing , birds , in every furrow ; And from each hill let music shrill Give my fair love good - morrow . Blackbird and thrush in every bush , Stare , linnet , and cock - sparrow ; You pretty elves , among yourselves , Sing my ...
... breast ; Sing , birds , in every furrow ; And from each hill let music shrill Give my fair love good - morrow . Blackbird and thrush in every bush , Stare , linnet , and cock - sparrow ; You pretty elves , among yourselves , Sing my ...
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