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... and showers with sudden hand Exuberant spring - for oft these valleys shift Their green - embroidered robe to fiery brown , And swift to green again , as scorching suns Or streaming dews and torrent rains prevail .
... and showers with sudden hand Exuberant spring - for oft these valleys shift Their green - embroidered robe to fiery brown , And swift to green again , as scorching suns Or streaming dews and torrent rains prevail .
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Song 2nd by a young Shepherd When the trees do laugh with our merry wit , And the 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 ...
Song 2nd by a young Shepherd When the trees do laugh with our merry wit , And the 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 ...
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... while in the hollow vale , Hollow and 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 ...
... while in the hollow vale , Hollow and 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 ...
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Contents
THE ELIZABETHAN PASTORAL II | 11 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
Four poems from the Arcadia | 37 |
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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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