The Task And Other Poems1891 |
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Page 21
... beauty , her fertility . She dreads An instant's pause , and lives but while she moves . Its own revolvency upholds the world . Winds from all quarters agitate the air , And fit the limpid element for use , Else noxious : oceans ...
... beauty , her fertility . She dreads An instant's pause , and lives but while she moves . Its own revolvency upholds the world . Winds from all quarters agitate the air , And fit the limpid element for use , Else noxious : oceans ...
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... beauty , when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet smiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys ...
... beauty , when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet smiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys ...
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... beauty to a stone , And Chatham's eloquence to marble lips . Nor does the chisel occupy alone The powers of sculpture , but the style as much ; Each province of her art her equal care . With nice incision of her guided steel She ploughs ...
... beauty to a stone , And Chatham's eloquence to marble lips . Nor does the chisel occupy alone The powers of sculpture , but the style as much ; Each province of her art her equal care . With nice incision of her guided steel She ploughs ...
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... beauty would do well to purge ; And show this queen of cities , that so fair May yet be foul ; so witty , yet not wise . It is not seemly , nor of good report , That she is slack in discipline ; more prompt To avenge than to prevent the ...
... beauty would do well to purge ; And show this queen of cities , that so fair May yet be foul ; so witty , yet not wise . It is not seemly , nor of good report , That she is slack in discipline ; more prompt To avenge than to prevent the ...
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... beauty oft and lettered worth consume Life in the unproductive shades of death , Fall prone the pale inhabitants come forth , And , happy in their unforeseen release From all the rigours of restraint , enjoy The terrors of the day that ...
... beauty oft and lettered worth consume Life in the unproductive shades of death , Fall prone the pale inhabitants come forth , And , happy in their unforeseen release From all the rigours of restraint , enjoy The terrors of the day that ...
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