The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Hours of IdlenessBaynes and Son, 1824 - 446 pages |
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... maids ! attend your poet's lays , And hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are blest , whom Fortune's hand ... maid ; Or taught the swains that surest bliss to find , What groves nor streams bestow - a virtuous mind . When ...
... maids ! attend your poet's lays , And hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are blest , whom Fortune's hand ... maid ; Or taught the swains that surest bliss to find , What groves nor streams bestow - a virtuous mind . When ...
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... maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts ... maid ; But man the most - not more the mountain doe Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe . Cold is her breast ...
... maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts ... maid ; But man the most - not more the mountain doe Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe . Cold is her breast ...
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... maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along , The shepherds loved , and Selim bless'd his song . ECLOGUE II . HASSAN : OR , THE CAMEL - DRIVER . Scene The Desert . Time - Mid - day . IN silent horror o ...
... maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along , The shepherds loved , and Selim bless'd his song . ECLOGUE II . HASSAN : OR , THE CAMEL - DRIVER . Scene The Desert . Time - Mid - day . IN silent horror o ...
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... maid , When fast she dropt her tears , as thus she said : " Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain , Whom ... maids of Zagen's peaceful grove , Emyra sung the pleasing cares of love . Of Abra first began the tender strain , Who ...
... maid , When fast she dropt her tears , as thus she said : " Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain , Whom ... maids of Zagen's peaceful grove , Emyra sung the pleasing cares of love . Of Abra first began the tender strain , Who ...
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... maid ; She knew the monarch , and with fear obey'd . ' Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra loved ! " The royal lover bore her from the plain ; Yet still her crook and bleating flock remain : Oft ...
... maid ; She knew the monarch , and with fear obey'd . ' Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra loved ! " The royal lover bore her from the plain ; Yet still her crook and bleating flock remain : Oft ...
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