A Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull, John Stanley Bull Oxford University Press, 1975 - 539 pages |
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Page 289
... o'er the ' unfinish'd lay . Let no Corinthian pillars prop the dome , A vain expense , on charitable deeds Better disposed , to clothe the tatter'd wretch Who shrinks beneath the blast , to feed the poor Pinch'd with afflictive want ...
... o'er the ' unfinish'd lay . Let no Corinthian pillars prop the dome , A vain expense , on charitable deeds Better disposed , to clothe the tatter'd wretch Who shrinks beneath the blast , to feed the poor Pinch'd with afflictive want ...
Page 305
... o'er the waves sublime , and now , even now , Impending hangs o'er Gallia's humbled coast ; Hence rules the circling deep , and awes the world . Bear me , Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime , With ...
... o'er the waves sublime , and now , even now , Impending hangs o'er Gallia's humbled coast ; Hence rules the circling deep , and awes the world . Bear me , Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime , With ...
Page 401
... o'er , Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor , From thence a length of burning sand appears , Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds , that every art and care defy , Reign o'er the land , and rob the ...
... o'er , Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor , From thence a length of burning sand appears , Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds , that every art and care defy , Reign o'er the land , and rob the ...
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