English Poems from Chaucer to KiplingThomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long |
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Page 36
... pleasure forward led , Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony , Which therein shrouded from the tempest dred , Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky . Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy , The sayling pine , the ...
... pleasure forward led , Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony , Which therein shrouded from the tempest dred , Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky . Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy , The sayling pine , the ...
Page 50
... pleasures prove That hills and vallies , dales and fields , Woods or steepy mountain yields . And we will sit upon the rocks , Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . And ...
... pleasures prove That hills and vallies , dales and fields , Woods or steepy mountain yields . And we will sit upon the rocks , Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . And ...
Page 61
... pleasure . " On his return he plunged into the political and religious contests of the time , abandoning poetry , except for a few sonnets , for twenty years . He wrote pamphlets on church reform , on education , and on the freedom of ...
... pleasure . " On his return he plunged into the political and religious contests of the time , abandoning poetry , except for a few sonnets , for twenty years . He wrote pamphlets on church reform , on education , and on the freedom of ...
Page 63
... pleasures free ; To hear the lark begin his flight , And , singing , startle the dull night , From his watch - tower in the skies , Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come , in spite of sorrow , And at my window bid good - morrow ...
... pleasures free ; To hear the lark begin his flight , And , singing , startle the dull night , From his watch - tower in the skies , Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come , in spite of sorrow , And at my window bid good - morrow ...
Page 64
... pleasures , Whilst the landskip round it measures : 70 Russet lawns , and fallows grey , Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim , with daisies pied ...
... pleasures , Whilst the landskip round it measures : 70 Russet lawns , and fallows grey , Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim , with daisies pied ...
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