The Works of the English Poets, Volume 56J. Rivington, 1779 - 371 pages |
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... o'er the mead : " Would my clos'd eye had funk in endless night , " Ere I was doom'd to bear that hateful fight ! " Where - e'er they pafs'd , be blafted every flower , “ And hungry wolves their helpless flocks devour ! " Ah wretched ...
... o'er the mead : " Would my clos'd eye had funk in endless night , " Ere I was doom'd to bear that hateful fight ! " Where - e'er they pafs'd , be blafted every flower , “ And hungry wolves their helpless flocks devour ! " Ah wretched ...
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... o'er ; And , while in Stowe's enchanting walks you ftray , This theme may help to cheat the fummer's day . Beneath the covert of a myrtle wood , To Venus rais'd , a rustic altar ftood , To Venus and to Hymen , there combin'd , In ...
... o'er ; And , while in Stowe's enchanting walks you ftray , This theme may help to cheat the fummer's day . Beneath the covert of a myrtle wood , To Venus rais'd , a rustic altar ftood , To Venus and to Hymen , there combin'd , In ...
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... o'er , And our flow pulfes dance with joy no more ; When Time no longer will thy beauties spare , And only Damon's eye fhall think thee fair ; " Then may the gentle hand of welcome Death , " At one soft stroke , deprive us both of ...
... o'er , And our flow pulfes dance with joy no more ; When Time no longer will thy beauties spare , And only Damon's eye fhall think thee fair ; " Then may the gentle hand of welcome Death , " At one soft stroke , deprive us both of ...
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... o'er , Return'd at length to his own native shore , From all that's gay retir'd , and all that's great , Beneath the fhades of his paternal feat , Has found that happiness he fought in vain On the fam'd banks of Tiber and of Seine ...
... o'er , Return'd at length to his own native shore , From all that's gay retir'd , and all that's great , Beneath the fhades of his paternal feat , Has found that happiness he fought in vain On the fam'd banks of Tiber and of Seine ...
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... o'er , And cloy'd imagination cheat no more . Then , waking to the sense of lasting pain , With mutual tears the nuptial couch they stain ; And And that fond love , which should afford relief , 42 LYTTELTON'S POEMS .
... o'er , And cloy'd imagination cheat no more . Then , waking to the sense of lasting pain , With mutual tears the nuptial couch they stain ; And And that fond love , which should afford relief , 42 LYTTELTON'S POEMS .
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