A Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull, John Stanley Bull Oxford University Press, 1975 - 539 pages |
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Page 287
... soft violence of prayer , The blithsome goddess sooths my care ; I feel the deity inspire , And thus she models my desire . Two hundred pounds , half - yearly paid , Annuity securely made , A farm some twenty miles from town , Small ...
... soft violence of prayer , The blithsome goddess sooths my care ; I feel the deity inspire , And thus she models my desire . Two hundred pounds , half - yearly paid , Annuity securely made , A farm some twenty miles from town , Small ...
Page 372
... soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning plain Belated , to support her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple , unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! - say where your ...
... soft quail his tender pain relate ; To see the swallow sweep the dark'ning plain Belated , to support her infant train ; To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring Dash round the steeple , unsubdu'd of wing : Amusive birds ! - say where your ...
Page 492
... soft - lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half - reap'd furrow sound asleep , Drows'd with the fume of poppies , while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers : And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady ...
... soft - lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half - reap'd furrow sound asleep , Drows'd with the fume of poppies , while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers : And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady ...
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