Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1810 - English poetry |
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... verse , And sanctify the numbers . Cres . Prophet may you be ! If I be false , or swerve a hair from truth , When time is old and hath forgot itself , When water - drops have worn the stones of Troy , And blind oblivion swallow'd cities ...
... verse , And sanctify the numbers . Cres . Prophet may you be ! If I be false , or swerve a hair from truth , When time is old and hath forgot itself , When water - drops have worn the stones of Troy , And blind oblivion swallow'd cities ...
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... verses graced with ev'ry tongue : The little children when they learn to go , By painful mothers daded to and fro , Are taught my sugar'd numbers to rehearse , And have their sweet lips season'd with my verse . When Heav'n would strive ...
... verses graced with ev'ry tongue : The little children when they learn to go , By painful mothers daded to and fro , Are taught my sugar'd numbers to rehearse , And have their sweet lips season'd with my verse . When Heav'n would strive ...
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... verse , to tell th ' one what the other was , Shall represent them both , thine eye and glass : Where both thy ... verses ( most divinely penn'd ) Upon thy praises ever shall attend . When to my chamber I myself retire , Burnt with the ...
... verse , to tell th ' one what the other was , Shall represent them both , thine eye and glass : Where both thy ... verses ( most divinely penn'd ) Upon thy praises ever shall attend . When to my chamber I myself retire , Burnt with the ...
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... verses carved in the rind : " When Geraldine shall sit in thy fair shade , Fan her fair tresses with perfumed air , Let thy large boughs a canopy be made , To keep the sun from gazing on my fair : And when thy spreading branched arms be ...
... verses carved in the rind : " When Geraldine shall sit in thy fair shade , Fan her fair tresses with perfumed air , Let thy large boughs a canopy be made , To keep the sun from gazing on my fair : And when thy spreading branched arms be ...
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... verses hears . ” Till thy return , by hope they only live ; Yet had they all , they all away would give : The world and they so ill - according be , That wealth and poets never can agree . Few live in court that of their good have care ...
... verses hears . ” Till thy return , by hope they only live ; Yet had they all , they all away would give : The world and they so ill - according be , That wealth and poets never can agree . Few live in court that of their good have care ...
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