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... rising or falling rhythm ; or From the low palace of old Father Ocean Come we in pity your cares to deplore ... where you can either give the line four stresses , or divide it with a caesura and give it six . Stresses indeed are but a ...
... rising or falling rhythm ; or From the low palace of old Father Ocean Come we in pity your cares to deplore ... where you can either give the line four stresses , or divide it with a caesura and give it six . Stresses indeed are but a ...
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... rising and the falling rhythm in turn : See the chariot at hand here of Love Wherein my Lady rideth . Each that draws is a swan or a dove , And well the car Love guideth . As she goes , all hearts do duty Unto her beauty ; And enamoured ...
... rising and the falling rhythm in turn : See the chariot at hand here of Love Wherein my Lady rideth . Each that draws is a swan or a dove , And well the car Love guideth . As she goes , all hearts do duty Unto her beauty ; And enamoured ...
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... rising and back again , neither rhythm being clearly established : When as the nightingale chanted her vespers , And the wild forester couched on the ground , Venus invited me in the evening whispers Unto a fragrant field with roses ...
... rising and back again , neither rhythm being clearly established : When as the nightingale chanted her vespers , And the wild forester couched on the ground , Venus invited me in the evening whispers Unto a fragrant field with roses ...
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