The Penguin Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull Allen Lane, 1974 - 539 pages |
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... o'er the ' unfinish'd lay . Let no Corinthian pillars prop the dome , A vain expense , on charitable deeds Better disposed , to clothe the tatter'd wretch Who shrinks beneath the blast , to feed the poor Pinch'd with afflictive want ...
... o'er the ' unfinish'd lay . Let no Corinthian pillars prop the dome , A vain expense , on charitable deeds Better disposed , to clothe the tatter'd wretch Who shrinks beneath the blast , to feed the poor Pinch'd with afflictive want ...
Page 305
... o'er the waves sublime , and now , even now , Impending hangs o'er Gallia's humbled coast ; Hence rules the circling deep , and awes the world . Bear me , Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime , With ...
... o'er the waves sublime , and now , even now , Impending hangs o'er Gallia's humbled coast ; Hence rules the circling deep , and awes the world . Bear me , Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime , With ...
Page 401
... o'er , Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor , From thence a length of burning sand appears , Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds , that every art and care defy , Reign o'er the land , and rob the ...
... o'er , Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor , From thence a length of burning sand appears , Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds , that every art and care defy , Reign o'er the land , and rob the ...
Contents
Glossary | 10 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 37 |
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