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... beneath your shade I come to rave , And Cynthia's letters on your rind engrave . Is it that now my wrongs thou canst deplore-- Wrongs whisper'd only to thy silent door , When to my fair one's least command I bow'd , And mourn'd her ...
... beneath your shade I come to rave , And Cynthia's letters on your rind engrave . Is it that now my wrongs thou canst deplore-- Wrongs whisper'd only to thy silent door , When to my fair one's least command I bow'd , And mourn'd her ...
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... beneath Arganthus ' crest , A liquid home , where Dryads love to rest ; High arch'd above the wild - wood monarchs stand , And fruits bloom there unrear'd by human hand ; While scarlet poppies blush beneath the shade , And silver lilies ...
... beneath Arganthus ' crest , A liquid home , where Dryads love to rest ; High arch'd above the wild - wood monarchs stand , And fruits bloom there unrear'd by human hand ; While scarlet poppies blush beneath the shade , And silver lilies ...
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... beneath the master's hand Restored Androgeos to his father's land ; E'en the sharp spear that pierced the Mysian's side Brought the kind rust that heal'd him e'er he died . But he whose art could cure me of my ill , Might bid the grasp ...
... beneath the master's hand Restored Androgeos to his father's land ; E'en the sharp spear that pierced the Mysian's side Brought the kind rust that heal'd him e'er he died . But he whose art could cure me of my ill , Might bid the grasp ...
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... beneath love's bitter servitude . Melampus , prophet - robber of the steer , Steel'd his true heart to bondage for a year ; No greed of lucre fired his heart , but she Whom fate ordain'd his future bride to be . IV . Multa prius dominæ ...
... beneath love's bitter servitude . Melampus , prophet - robber of the steer , Steel'd his true heart to bondage for a year ; No greed of lucre fired his heart , but she Whom fate ordain'd his future bride to be . IV . Multa prius dominæ ...
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... beneath love's secret blow , But whence the evil springs I never know . No bed can help the wretch , no leech's care— ' Tis not the season hurts him , or the air : He walks one moment , next he's seen to fall— So strange is love , so ...
... beneath love's secret blow , But whence the evil springs I never know . No bed can help the wretch , no leech's care— ' Tis not the season hurts him , or the air : He walks one moment , next he's seen to fall— So strange is love , so ...
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arms bade beauty beneath Bishop bliss Boötes bore Brasenose College breast brow Cæsar Callimachus Cambridge canst charm Cheltenham College Church Church of England Crown 8vo Cynthia dark death Dost E'en e'er Edward Meyrick Goulburn eyes fair fall false fame fate fear fire golden hair hear heart Heaven Henry Parry Liddon Holy John Henry Blunt Jove late Fellow Lecturer life's London Lord love's lovers lyre maid maidens mark'd Merton College methinks Muses ne'er never night nought o'er once Oxford Phoebus poor prayers Propertius roam Roman Rome Sackville College Second Edition Sermons shade shame shore shrine sing sleep Small 8vo soft song spurn stern stream tale Tarpeia tears tell thee thine thou art thou wilt throng tomb Trinity College Twas Venus wave weary weep wilt thou wine woo'd wouldst wrath yield yore
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