The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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... rock , or wander on the strand , Or trace the rill , or penetrate the grove . From Baia's hills , from Portsea's spreading wave , To fair Cicestria's lonely walls I stray ; To her famed Poet's venerated grave Anxious my tribute of ...
... rock , or wander on the strand , Or trace the rill , or penetrate the grove . From Baia's hills , from Portsea's spreading wave , To fair Cicestria's lonely walls I stray ; To her famed Poet's venerated grave Anxious my tribute of ...
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... rocks alone and tasteless sands are found , And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from Schiraz ' walls I bent my way ! Curst be the gold and silver which persuade Weak ...
... rocks alone and tasteless sands are found , And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from Schiraz ' walls I bent my way ! Curst be the gold and silver which persuade Weak ...
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... rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms join'd , Who prompt to deeds accursed the mind : And those , the fiends , who near allied , O'er Nature's wounds , and wrecks preside ; While Vengeance , in the lurid air , Lifts her red ...
... rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms join'd , Who prompt to deeds accursed the mind : And those , the fiends , who near allied , O'er Nature's wounds , and wrecks preside ; While Vengeance , in the lurid air , Lifts her red ...
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... rock , Its glooms embrown , its springs unlock , While on its rich ambitious head An Eden , like his own , lies spread , I view that oak , the fancied glades among , By which , as Milton lay , his evening ear , From many a cloud that ...
... rock , Its glooms embrown , its springs unlock , While on its rich ambitious head An Eden , like his own , lies spread , I view that oak , the fancied glades among , By which , as Milton lay , his evening ear , From many a cloud that ...
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... rocks , the woods , the vale , She call'd on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose , A soft responsive voice was heard at every close , And Hope enchanted smiled , and waved her golden hair . And ...
... rocks , the woods , the vale , She call'd on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose , A soft responsive voice was heard at every close , And Hope enchanted smiled , and waved her golden hair . And ...
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