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Hard is to bear of pinching cold the pain ; And hard is want to the unpractised swain : But neither want , nor pinching cold , is hard , To blasting storms of calumny compared ! Unkind as hail it falls : the pelting shower Destroys the ...
Hard is to bear of pinching cold the pain ; And hard is want to the unpractised swain : But neither want , nor pinching cold , is hard , To blasting storms of calumny compared ! Unkind as hail it falls : the pelting shower Destroys the ...
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By health the peasant's toil Is well repaid ; if exercise were pain Indeed , and temperance pain . By arts like these Laconia nursed of old her hardy sons ; And Rome's unconquer'd legions urged their way , Unhurt , through every toil in ...
By health the peasant's toil Is well repaid ; if exercise were pain Indeed , and temperance pain . By arts like these Laconia nursed of old her hardy sons ; And Rome's unconquer'd legions urged their way , Unhurt , through every toil in ...
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... Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning plain Belated , to support her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple , unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds !
... Or the soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning plain Belated , to support her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple , unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds !
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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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