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Page 95
... spring I shoot up fair , Off'ring at heav'n , growing and groaning thither ; Nor doth my flower Want a spring - showre , My sinnes and I joining together . But while I grow in a straight line , Still upwards bent , as if heav'n were ...
... spring I shoot up fair , Off'ring at heav'n , growing and groaning thither ; Nor doth my flower Want a spring - showre , My sinnes and I joining together . But while I grow in a straight line , Still upwards bent , as if heav'n were ...
Page 253
... Spring . The beauty to which he returns again and again is the beauty of spring - the spring of nature and the spring of human life . These themes are as old as poetry ; yet here the burgeoning is felt with distinctive freshness and ...
... Spring . The beauty to which he returns again and again is the beauty of spring - the spring of nature and the spring of human life . These themes are as old as poetry ; yet here the burgeoning is felt with distinctive freshness and ...
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... Spring : When school - girls listening hope and listening fear , They call that time the sweetening of the year . When schoolboys build great navies in the skies and a rebellion burns the butterflies : Sunlight has strange conspiracies ...
... Spring : When school - girls listening hope and listening fear , They call that time the sweetening of the year . When schoolboys build great navies in the skies and a rebellion burns the butterflies : Sunlight has strange conspiracies ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BEN JONSON Continued | 27 |
ROSALINDS MADRIGAL | 33 |
Copyright | |
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