The Penguin Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull Allen Lane, 1974 - 539 pages |
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Page 306
... green - embroidered robe to fiery brown , And swift to green again , as scorching suns Or streaming dews and torrent rains prevail . Along these lonely regions , where , retired From little scenes of art , great Nature dwells In awful ...
... green - embroidered robe to fiery brown , And swift to green again , as scorching suns Or streaming dews and torrent rains prevail . Along these lonely regions , where , retired From little scenes of art , great Nature dwells In awful ...
Page 450
... green hill laughs with the noise of it , When the meadows laugh with lively green And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene , When the greenwood laughs with the voice of joy , And the dimpling stream runs laughing by , When Edessa ...
... green hill laughs with the noise of it , When the meadows laugh with lively green And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene , When the greenwood laughs with the voice of joy , And the dimpling stream runs laughing by , When Edessa ...
Page 465
... green , he lay on the green turf In pensive idleness . What could he do , Thus daily thirsting , in that lonesome life , With blind endeavours ? Yet , still uppermost , Nature was at his heart as if he felt , Though yet he knew not how ...
... green , he lay on the green turf In pensive idleness . What could he do , Thus daily thirsting , in that lonesome life , With blind endeavours ? Yet , still uppermost , Nature was at his heart as if he felt , Though yet he knew not how ...
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Glossary | 10 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 37 |
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