Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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... wing ascend , 570 My panting muse ; and hark , how loud the woods Invite you forth in all your gayest trim . 575 Lend me your song , ye nightingales ! oh , pour The mazy - running soul of melody Into my varied verse ! while I deduce ...
... wing ascend , 570 My panting muse ; and hark , how loud the woods Invite you forth in all your gayest trim . 575 Lend me your song , ye nightingales ! oh , pour The mazy - running soul of melody Into my varied verse ! while I deduce ...
Page 161
... wing , Should some rude foot their woody haunts molest , Amid a neighboring bush they silent drop , And whirring thence , as if alarmed , deceive The unfeeling schoolboy . Hence , around the head 690 Of wandering swain , the white ...
... wing , Should some rude foot their woody haunts molest , Amid a neighboring bush they silent drop , And whirring thence , as if alarmed , deceive The unfeeling schoolboy . Hence , around the head 690 Of wandering swain , the white ...
Page 162
... wings , Demand the free possession of the sky . 730 This one glad office more , and then dissolves Parental love at ... wing , their range and pasture . O'er the boughs Dancing about , still at the giddy verge 740 Their resolution fails ...
... wings , Demand the free possession of the sky . 730 This one glad office more , and then dissolves Parental love at ... wing , their range and pasture . O'er the boughs Dancing about , still at the giddy verge 740 Their resolution fails ...
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