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... lay me there . Hard were the Gods that my poor senses prest , For love and wine alternate rack'd my breast ; These bid me raise her lightly in my arms , To kiss my Cynthia's all unconscious charms ; And yet I fear'd to wake her slumber ...
... lay me there . Hard were the Gods that my poor senses prest , For love and wine alternate rack'd my breast ; These bid me raise her lightly in my arms , To kiss my Cynthia's all unconscious charms ; And yet I fear'd to wake her slumber ...
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... lay , Ere in Lycoris ' arms he swoon'd away ! Though sleep press'd heavy on my swimming eyes , And midnight wrapp'd in calm the moonlit skies , Yet still I linger'd with ye - loth to part From the warm , whisper'd love of each young ...
... lay , Ere in Lycoris ' arms he swoon'd away ! Though sleep press'd heavy on my swimming eyes , And midnight wrapp'd in calm the moonlit skies , Yet still I linger'd with ye - loth to part From the warm , whisper'd love of each young ...
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... lay last night so trim , And spending hours o'er fashion's latest whim ; While o'er thy breast all India's gems are pour'd , Like some fair bride that waits to meet her lord . Yet ' twas not thus Calypso wept of yore Reft of Ulysses on ...
... lay last night so trim , And spending hours o'er fashion's latest whim ; While o'er thy breast all India's gems are pour'd , Like some fair bride that waits to meet her lord . Yet ' twas not thus Calypso wept of yore Reft of Ulysses on ...
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... mangled kinsman lay , No earth , no shelter for his wretched clay . And there it was that Umbria nurtured me , Which beetles , rock - like , o'er the grassy sea . IF BOOK II . I. Quæritis unde mihi . ye BOOK I. ] 27 PROPERTIUS .
... mangled kinsman lay , No earth , no shelter for his wretched clay . And there it was that Umbria nurtured me , Which beetles , rock - like , o'er the grassy sea . IF BOOK II . I. Quæritis unde mihi . ye BOOK I. ] 27 PROPERTIUS .
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... lay , Or Mutina , or red Philippi's day ; The Tuscan hearths laid waste , Perusia's fall , Or Pharo's kingdoms in a stranger's thrall ; Cyprus subdued , or from his watery home , The seven - mouth'd Nile God dragg'd in chains to Rome ...
... lay , Or Mutina , or red Philippi's day ; The Tuscan hearths laid waste , Perusia's fall , Or Pharo's kingdoms in a stranger's thrall ; Cyprus subdued , or from his watery home , The seven - mouth'd Nile God dragg'd in chains to Rome ...
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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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