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Fence now meets fence in owners little bounds Of field and meadow large as garden grounds In little parcels little ... see the mores and fields and meadows smile Sometimes with cowslaps smothered – then all white With daiseys – then the ...
Fence now meets fence in owners little bounds Of field and meadow large as garden grounds In little parcels little ... see the mores and fields and meadows smile Sometimes with cowslaps smothered – then all white With daiseys – then the ...
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... all that stirs about the silent street Fancy might think that desert spreading fear Had whisperd terrors into quiets ear Or plundering armys past the place had come And drove the lost inhabitants from home The fields now claim them ...
... all that stirs about the silent street Fancy might think that desert spreading fear Had whisperd terrors into quiets ear Or plundering armys past the place had come And drove the lost inhabitants from home The fields now claim them ...
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... gathering weeds entwind And singing rakers end the toils behind ( 1827 Winter Fields O for a pleasant book to cheat the sway Of winter - where rich mirth with hearty laugh Listens and rubs his legs on corner seat For fields are mire ...
... gathering weeds entwind And singing rakers end the toils behind ( 1827 Winter Fields O for a pleasant book to cheat the sway Of winter - where rich mirth with hearty laugh Listens and rubs his legs on corner seat For fields are mire ...
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Contents
THE ELIZABETHAN PASTORAL II | 11 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
Four poems from the Arcadia | 37 |
Copyright | |
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appear bear beneath breath bright bring charms court delight doth earth eyes face fair fall fear feel fields flocks flowers Garden give Golden grace green groves grow hand happy hath head hear heart hills hope innocence keep kind labour land leave light live look Lord mean mind morn muse nature never night o'er once pain Pastoral plain play pleasure poem poet poetry poor praise pride rest rich rise round rural scene seems seen shade sheep shepherds side simple sing smiling soft song soon soul sound spread Spring stand stream swain sweet tell thee things thou thought toil town tradition trees true turn village wild wind woods youth
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| Title | The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse |
| Editors | John Barrell, John Bull |
| Publisher | Allen Lane, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0713906103, 9780713906103 |
| Length | 539 pages |
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