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... with flower - soft face that gleamed To sun and seaward as it laughed and dreamed , Too sure of either love for either's fear , Albeit so birdlike slight and light , it seemed Nor man nor mortal child of man , but fair B2 THALASSIUS.
... with flower - soft face that gleamed To sun and seaward as it laughed and dreamed , Too sure of either love for either's fear , Albeit so birdlike slight and light , it seemed Nor man nor mortal child of man , but fair B2 THALASSIUS.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne. Nor man nor mortal child of man , but fair As even its twin - born tenderer spray - flowers were , That the wind scatters like an Oread's hair . For when July strewed fire on earth and sea The last time ere ...
Algernon Charles Swinburne. Nor man nor mortal child of man , but fair As even its twin - born tenderer spray - flowers were , That the wind scatters like an Oread's hair . For when July strewed fire on earth and sea The last time ere ...
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... fair clear faces full of bloodier lust Than swells and stings the tiger when his mood Is fieriest after blood And drunk with trampling of the murderous must That soaks and stains the tortuous close - coiled wood Made monstrous with its ...
... fair clear faces full of bloodier lust Than swells and stings the tiger when his mood Is fieriest after blood And drunk with trampling of the murderous must That soaks and stains the tortuous close - coiled wood Made monstrous with its ...
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... And help in her was nought . Then many a midnight , many a morn and even , His mother , passing forth of her fair heaven , With goodlier gifts than all save gods can give From earth or from the heaven where sea - things THALASSIUS . 27.
... And help in her was nought . Then many a midnight , many a morn and even , His mother , passing forth of her fair heaven , With goodlier gifts than all save gods can give From earth or from the heaven where sea - things THALASSIUS . 27.
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... passing forth of all those fair fierce ranks Back to the grey sea - banks , Against a sea - rock lying , aslant the steep , Fell after many sleepless dreams on sleep . And in his sleep the dun green light was shed 28 THALASSIUS .
... passing forth of all those fair fierce ranks Back to the grey sea - banks , Against a sea - rock lying , aslant the steep , Fell after many sleepless dreams on sleep . And in his sleep the dun green light was shed 28 THALASSIUS .
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