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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critcal Notices and An ... - Page 341
1855 - 749 pages
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Flora's Interpreter, Or The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1848 - 284 pages
...now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she, _ The common fate of all things rare, May read in thee,...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Walltr. SENTIMENT. * Farewell! the tie is broken. Thou With all thou wert to me hast parted: I feel...
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Sabrinae Corolla in Hortulis Regiae Scholae Salopiensis contexuerunt tres ...

Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Apis áurea otiatur : sed ego única vigilo ; Oculi madent fluentes, cruciatqve amor animum ; Animus...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...the light retir'd ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not blush so to be admir'd. oresight makes thee more shaie That arc so wondrous sweet and fair 1 Old Aye and Death. The seas are quiet when the winds give...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...the light retir'd ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admir'd. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. 21 Say, lovely dream! where could'st thou find Shades to counterfeit that face 1 Colours of this glorious...
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Lotos-eating: a Summer Book

George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1852 - 214 pages
...men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair." He not being at Saratoga this year you are content with looking across the court and remembering his...
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Home and Social Philosophy: Or, Chapters on Every-day Topics, Volume 2

Household words - 1852 - 252 pages
...National Illustrated Library, which is very generally accessible, on account of its cheapness. Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And...they share That are so wond'rous sweet and fair." Herrick has signalised himself by the finest " Anacreontic" in our language. I mean the one beginning,...
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National Series of Selections for Reading; Adapted to the Standing ..., Volume 4

Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. 4. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair! LESSON LXXXIX. On the Day of Judgment. — EARL OF RoscoMMON.t 1. THAT day of wrath, that dreadful...
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Garden Walks with the Poets

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. 146 SUR LA MORT D'UNE JEUNE FILLE. « Then die ! that she The common fate of all things...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! (Additional stanza by HK White.) Yet, though thou fade, From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise,...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...the light retir'd : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd. And not blush so to be admir'd. ! TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day t Could we (which we never...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...no men abide, Thou must have uncommended dy'd. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd ; Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing. Chloris , your self you so excel, When you vouchsafe to...
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