A Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull, John Stanley Bull Oxford University Press, 1975 - 539 pages |
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Page 205
... breath was sweet as kind desire , And in her beauteous crescent shone , Bright as the Argent - horned Moone . But see ! this whitenesse is obscure , Cynthia spotted , she impure ; Her body writheld , and her eyes Departing lights at ...
... breath was sweet as kind desire , And in her beauteous crescent shone , Bright as the Argent - horned Moone . But see ! this whitenesse is obscure , Cynthia spotted , she impure ; Her body writheld , and her eyes Departing lights at ...
Page 345
... breath in *** ' s praise . ' O might my breath for *** ' s praise suffice , How gently should my dying limbs repose ! O might his future glory bless mine eyes , My ravish'd eyes ! how calmly would they close ! **** was born to spread ...
... breath in *** ' s praise . ' O might my breath for *** ' s praise suffice , How gently should my dying limbs repose ! O might his future glory bless mine eyes , My ravish'd eyes ! how calmly would they close ! **** was born to spread ...
Page 392
... breath can make them , as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroy'd , can never be supplied . A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When every rood of ground maintained its man ...
... breath can make them , as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroy'd , can never be supplied . A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When every rood of ground maintained its man ...
Contents
Glossary | 10 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 37 |
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ALEXANDER POPE alwayes Ametas AMORET Arcadia beneath birds breath Ceres charms Colin COMUS court dear delight doth dwell earth Eclogue ev'ry eyes fair fear feast feed fields fleece flocks flowers Garden gentle Georgic Golden Age grace green groves hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heaven Helpston hills innocence John Clare labour lambs land live look Lord Lycidas maid MELLIFLEUR mind mirth morn Muse nature never night nymph o'er pain Pastoral Pastoral Poetry PERDITA PERIGOT pipe plain pleasure poem poet poetry poor praise pride rest rich rise ROBIN-HOOD round rural rustic scene shade sheep shepherds sing smiling soft song soul spring Stephen Duck strain stream swain sweet thee THENOT Theocritus thine thou thought toil town tradition trees unto vale version of Pastoral wild winds winter Winter's Tale woods youth