Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin A. Hart, Carey & Hart, 1850 - 807 pages |
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... wood's poetic throats , All thy art could never pay What thou hast ta'en from me away . Cruel bird ! thou'st ta'en away A dream out of my arms to - day ; A dream , that ne'er must equall'd be By all that waking eyes may see Thou , this ...
... wood's poetic throats , All thy art could never pay What thou hast ta'en from me away . Cruel bird ! thou'st ta'en away A dream out of my arms to - day ; A dream , that ne'er must equall'd be By all that waking eyes may see Thou , this ...
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... wood , born with himself , he sees , And loves his old contemporary trees . He ' as only heard of near Verona's name ... woods ! when , when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade ? Here's the spring - head of Pleasure's flood ...
... wood , born with himself , he sees , And loves his old contemporary trees . He ' as only heard of near Verona's name ... woods ! when , when shall I be made The happy tenant of your shade ? Here's the spring - head of Pleasure's flood ...
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... wood - notes wild . And ever , against eating cares , Lap me in soft Lydian airs , Married to immortal verse ; Such ... woods among , I woo , to hear thy even - song ; And , missing thee , I walk unseen On the dry smooth - shaven green ...
... wood - notes wild . And ever , against eating cares , Lap me in soft Lydian airs , Married to immortal verse ; Such ... woods among , I woo , to hear thy even - song ; And , missing thee , I walk unseen On the dry smooth - shaven green ...
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... woods , and desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown , And all their echoes , mourn : The willows , and the hazel copses green , Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays . As killing as ...
... woods , and desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown , And all their echoes , mourn : The willows , and the hazel copses green , Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays . As killing as ...
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... woods , and pastures new . COMUS . THE PERSONS . 191 30 40 And new - intrusted sceptre : but their way Lies through the perplex'd paths of this drear wood , The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering ...
... woods , and pastures new . COMUS . THE PERSONS . 191 30 40 And new - intrusted sceptre : but their way Lies through the perplex'd paths of this drear wood , The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering ...
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