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... tale in broken words of woe ! How often wilt thou shudder midst thy tears ! How oft with blanching cheek betray thy fears ! Then will thy faltering tongue refuse its part , Nor wilt thou know thy name , or whence thou art . Then all ...
... tale in broken words of woe ! How often wilt thou shudder midst thy tears ! How oft with blanching cheek betray thy fears ! Then will thy faltering tongue refuse its part , Nor wilt thou know thy name , or whence thou art . Then all ...
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... tale of love , And seek some charm hard Cynthia's heart to move . My numbers breathe of no poetic fire , I do but mourn , and grief attunes the lyre . Such is my life ! and all the fame I ask- That love should consecrate my tuneful task ...
... tale of love , And seek some charm hard Cynthia's heart to move . My numbers breathe of no poetic fire , I do but mourn , and grief attunes the lyre . Such is my life ! and all the fame I ask- That love should consecrate my tuneful task ...
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... tale of woman's constancy ? Then swear no more to loves that never last , Nor call on Heaven , that has forgot the past . For me , rash girl , the bitter tears shall flow , When troubles come , and Fortune strikes thee low . Yet shall ...
... tale of woman's constancy ? Then swear no more to loves that never last , Nor call on Heaven , that has forgot the past . For me , rash girl , the bitter tears shall flow , When troubles come , and Fortune strikes thee low . Yet shall ...
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... tale of love , Where Zephyr breathes , sole tenant of the grove . If lonely rocks keep only silence so , Here may I speak the secret of my woe . Thy pride , my Cynthia , how can I recall ? Ah ! where begins the record of my fall ? I ...
... tale of love , Where Zephyr breathes , sole tenant of the grove . If lonely rocks keep only silence so , Here may I speak the secret of my woe . Thy pride , my Cynthia , how can I recall ? Ah ! where begins the record of my fall ? I ...
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... my wail , Sit the sole listeners to this plaintive tale . Whate'er thou art , may woods still sound thy name , And solitary crags return the same . XIX . Non ego nunc tristes . AT thoughts of BOOK I. ] 23 PROPERTIUS .
... my wail , Sit the sole listeners to this plaintive tale . Whate'er thou art , may woods still sound thy name , And solitary crags return the same . XIX . Non ego nunc tristes . AT thoughts of BOOK I. ] 23 PROPERTIUS .
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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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