The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... dear unperishing remains ; An undecaying monument to stand , Rais'd to thy name by thy own skilful hand . Then let me wing from Earth my willing way , To meet thy soul in blaze of living day , Rapt to the skies , like thee , with joyful ...
... dear unperishing remains ; An undecaying monument to stand , Rais'd to thy name by thy own skilful hand . Then let me wing from Earth my willing way , To meet thy soul in blaze of living day , Rapt to the skies , like thee , with joyful ...
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... dear lord this faithless ocean prove ? Escap'd the chance of war , and fraud of foes , Wilt thou to warring waves thy sacred life expose ? Why am I thus divided by the sea From all the world , and all the world in thee ? Could sighs and ...
... dear lord this faithless ocean prove ? Escap'd the chance of war , and fraud of foes , Wilt thou to warring waves thy sacred life expose ? Why am I thus divided by the sea From all the world , and all the world in thee ? Could sighs and ...
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... dear did Albert this contention pay ! Witness the floods of streaming gore ; Witness the trampled heaps , that chok'd the plain , And stopp'd the victors in their way ; Witness the neighbouring sea , and sandy shore , Drunk with the ...
... dear did Albert this contention pay ! Witness the floods of streaming gore ; Witness the trampled heaps , that chok'd the plain , And stopp'd the victors in their way ; Witness the neighbouring sea , and sandy shore , Drunk with the ...
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... dear corpse , and , frantic in despair , Kiss'd his cold face , supply'd a briny flood 66 To the wide wound , and mingled tears with blood . Say , Pyramus , oh say , what chance severe Has snatch'd thee from my arms ?. ' Tis thy own ...
... dear corpse , and , frantic in despair , Kiss'd his cold face , supply'd a briny flood 66 To the wide wound , and mingled tears with blood . Say , Pyramus , oh say , what chance severe Has snatch'd thee from my arms ?. ' Tis thy own ...
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... dear , Shame and sorrow will destroy , If Hymen license not the joy : BOTH TOGETHER . Then let us join hands and unite : Last Chorus of the shepherds and nymphs . How happy , how happy , how happy are we , Where Cupid and Hymen in ...
... dear , Shame and sorrow will destroy , If Hymen license not the joy : BOTH TOGETHER . Then let us join hands and unite : Last Chorus of the shepherds and nymphs . How happy , how happy , how happy are we , Where Cupid and Hymen in ...
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