Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1810 |
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... never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bit , As much disdaining to the curb to yield : Full jolly knight he seem'd , and fair did sit , As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit . But on his breast a bloody cross ...
... never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bit , As much disdaining to the curb to yield : Full jolly knight he seem'd , and fair did sit , As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit . But on his breast a bloody cross ...
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... never dry , The builder Oak , sole king of forests all , The Aspin good for staves , the Cypress funeral , The Laurel , meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage , the Fir that weepeth still , The Willow , worn of forlorn paramours , The ...
... never dry , The builder Oak , sole king of forests all , The Aspin good for staves , the Cypress funeral , The Laurel , meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage , the Fir that weepeth still , The Willow , worn of forlorn paramours , The ...
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... never merry when I hear sweet music . Lor . The reason is , your spirits are attentive ; For do but note a wild and wanton herd , Or race of youthful and unhandled colts , Fetching mad bounds , bellowing , and neighing loud , Which is ...
... never merry when I hear sweet music . Lor . The reason is , your spirits are attentive ; For do but note a wild and wanton herd , Or race of youthful and unhandled colts , Fetching mad bounds , bellowing , and neighing loud , Which is ...
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... never had in all her body vain . Like as a ship , in which no balance lies , Without a pilot on the sleeping waves , Fairly along with wind and water flies , And painted masts with silken sails embraves , That Neptune's self the ...
... never had in all her body vain . Like as a ship , in which no balance lies , Without a pilot on the sleeping waves , Fairly along with wind and water flies , And painted masts with silken sails embraves , That Neptune's self the ...
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... never bore : But her weak arms embraced him the more , And her with ruby grapes laugh'd at her paramour . PHINEAS FLETCHER . 1620 . HAPPINESS OF THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE . THRICE , oh , thrice happy , shepherd's life and state ! When courts ...
... never bore : But her weak arms embraced him the more , And her with ruby grapes laugh'd at her paramour . PHINEAS FLETCHER . 1620 . HAPPINESS OF THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE . THRICE , oh , thrice happy , shepherd's life and state ! When courts ...
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