Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1810 - English poetry |
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... breathing space ; The trembling groves , the crystal running by ; And that which all fair works doth most aggrace , The art , which all that wrought , appeared in no place . One would have thought ( so cunningly the rude And scorned ...
... breathing space ; The trembling groves , the crystal running by ; And that which all fair works doth most aggrace , The art , which all that wrought , appeared in no place . One would have thought ( so cunningly the rude And scorned ...
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... breath : the ruddock would , With charitable bill ( oh , bill , sore - shaming Those rich - left heirs , that let their father's lie Without a monument ! ) , bring thee all this ; Yea , and furr'd moss besides , when flowers are none ...
... breath : the ruddock would , With charitable bill ( oh , bill , sore - shaming Those rich - left heirs , that let their father's lie Without a monument ! ) , bring thee all this ; Yea , and furr'd moss besides , when flowers are none ...
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... breath in subtle vapours threw , That all about perfumed spirits flew . For whatsoever might aggrate the sense , In all the world , or please the appetence , Here it was poured out in lavish affluence . The garden like a lady fair was ...
... breath in subtle vapours threw , That all about perfumed spirits flew . For whatsoever might aggrate the sense , In all the world , or please the appetence , Here it was poured out in lavish affluence . The garden like a lady fair was ...
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... breath , We likewise share a second power by death . When time shall turn those amber locks to gray , My verse again shall gild and make them gay , And trick them up in knotted curls anew , And to thy autumn give a summer's hue ; That ...
... breath , We likewise share a second power by death . When time shall turn those amber locks to gray , My verse again shall gild and make them gay , And trick them up in knotted curls anew , And to thy autumn give a summer's hue ; That ...
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... : In Greenwich still , as in a glass , I view , Where last thou bad'st thy Geraldine adieu . With ev'ry little perling breath that blows , How are 54 MICHAEL DRAYTON . The Lady Geraldine to Henry Howard, earl of Surrey.
... : In Greenwich still , as in a glass , I view , Where last thou bad'st thy Geraldine adieu . With ev'ry little perling breath that blows , How are 54 MICHAEL DRAYTON . The Lady Geraldine to Henry Howard, earl of Surrey.
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