Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks. 50 Antistrophe Thou who such weary lengths hast passed , Where wilt thou rest , mad nymph , at last ? Say , wilt thou shroud in haunted cell , Where gloomy Rape and Murder dwell ? Or in ...
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks. 50 Antistrophe Thou who such weary lengths hast passed , Where wilt thou rest , mad nymph , at last ? Say , wilt thou shroud in haunted cell , Where gloomy Rape and Murder dwell ? Or in ...
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... Thou reign'st : 870 Thy providence forbids that fickle pow'r ( If power she be that works but to confound ) To mix her wild vagaries with Thy laws . Yet thus we dote , refusing while we can Instruction , and inventing to ourselves 875 ...
... Thou reign'st : 870 Thy providence forbids that fickle pow'r ( If power she be that works but to confound ) To mix her wild vagaries with Thy laws . Yet thus we dote , refusing while we can Instruction , and inventing to ourselves 875 ...
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... thou , whose trident struck the teeming earth , And made a passage for the courser's birth ; And thou , for whom the Caean shore sustains Thy milky herds , that graze the flow'ry plains ; And thou , the shepherds ' tutelary god , Leave ...
... thou , whose trident struck the teeming earth , And made a passage for the courser's birth ; And thou , for whom the Caean shore sustains Thy milky herds , that graze the flow'ry plains ; And thou , the shepherds ' tutelary god , Leave ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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ADORATION auld auld lang syne bard beauty beneath bless breast breath charms Christopher Smart clouds Cowper death delight Dunciad e'er earth eighteenth-century ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flowers frae golden reign grace hand hear heart heav'n honor hour human J. V. Cunningham John John Gay Jonathan Swift king lasses light Lord lyre maid Matthew Prior mind morn Muse nature Nature's ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace periphrasis Philip Larkin plain play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry pow'r praise pride rise round scene scorn sense shade shine sighs sing skelpin sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit Spring strain stream swain sweet Swift thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse virtue voice walk wild William Cowper wind wing woods youth