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The Every Day Book, Or, A Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular ... - Page 69
by William Hone - 1826
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the chanr is fled. Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplexed she lay, Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppressed Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued...
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Simple English poems, ed. by H.C. Bowen

Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : * She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. 225 Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort...soul fatigued away ; Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day ; 230 Blissfully haven'd both from joy and pain ; Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims...
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The Monitor, Volume 1

1879 - 512 pages
...and chilly nest, sinking into repose ; when at length : — " The poppied warmth of sleep oppressed Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away ; Flown like a thought until the morrow day; Blissfully havened both from joy and pain, Clasped like a missal where swart Paynims pray, Blinded alike from...
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The Monitor: an illustrated Dublin magazine, Volume 1

1879 - 516 pages
...and chilly nest, sinking into repose ; when at length : — " The poppied warmth of sleep oppressed Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away ; Flown like a thought until the morrow day ; Blissfully liavened both from joy and pain, Clasped like a missal where swart Paynims pray, Blinded alike from...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 60

1880 - 976 pages
...mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed. But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. Soon,...soul fatigued away; Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day; Blissfully haven'd both from joy and pain; Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray;...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, liut ear'st aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumping...see the lightning lances driven, When strive the war perplexed she lay, Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppressed • Her soothed limbs, and sold fatigued...
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The English Poets: Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pages
...mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. Soon,...her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplexed she lay, Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppressed Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 pages
...mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. Soon,...her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplexed she lay, Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppressed Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, [is fled. But dares not look behind, or all the charm Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon .perplexed she lay, Until thepoppiedwarmth of sleep oppressed Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 4

Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled. Soon,...her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplexed she lay, Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppressed Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued...
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