A Thousand and One Gems of PoetryCharles Mackay |
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... song What gold could never buy . Oh ! woman's heart was made For minstrel hands alone ; By other fingers played , It yields not half the tone . Then here's to her who long Hath waked the poet's sigh , The girl who gave to song What gold ...
... song What gold could never buy . Oh ! woman's heart was made For minstrel hands alone ; By other fingers played , It yields not half the tone . Then here's to her who long Hath waked the poet's sigh , The girl who gave to song What gold ...
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... song nor sad nor merry , but low and sweet and plaintive ; A clarion blast in sorrow ; an anodyne in strife ; A song like a ray of moonlight that gleams athwart a tempest . Sound ever , O Song ! whether I live or die , sound sweetly ...
... song nor sad nor merry , but low and sweet and plaintive ; A clarion blast in sorrow ; an anodyne in strife ; A song like a ray of moonlight that gleams athwart a tempest . Sound ever , O Song ! whether I live or die , sound sweetly ...
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... Song 157 The Bridge of Sighs . 148 147 151 The Song of the Shirt Houghton , Lord ( Richard Monckton Milnes ) . When long upon the Scales of Fate . 152 Hunt , Leigh . 149 Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel . ยท 150 The Village Schoolmaster and ...
... Song 157 The Bridge of Sighs . 148 147 151 The Song of the Shirt Houghton , Lord ( Richard Monckton Milnes ) . When long upon the Scales of Fate . 152 Hunt , Leigh . 149 Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel . ยท 150 The Village Schoolmaster and ...
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