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... ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding - a - ding , ding ; Sweet lovers love the spring . Between the acres of the rye , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino , These pretty country folks would lie , In the spring time , the only ...
... ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding - a - ding , ding ; Sweet lovers love the spring . Between the acres of the rye , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino , These pretty country folks would lie , In the spring time , the only ...
Page 153
... ring , flying , O the pain , the bliss of dying ! Cease , fond Nature , cease thy strife , And let me languish into life . Hark ! they whisper ; Angels say , Sister Spirit , come away ! What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses ...
... ring , flying , O the pain , the bliss of dying ! Cease , fond Nature , cease thy strife , And let me languish into life . Hark ! they whisper ; Angels say , Sister Spirit , come away ! What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses ...
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... ring near her secret bow'r , Molest her ancient solitary reign . Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap , Each in his narrow cell for ever laid , The rude Forefathers of the ...
... ring near her secret bow'r , Molest her ancient solitary reign . Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap , Each in his narrow cell for ever laid , The rude Forefathers of the ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE beauty beneath birds breast breath bright Christabel clouds dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream dust earth Edmund Blunden eyes face fair fear fire flame flowers G. K. Chesterton Gerard Manley Hopkins glory golden gone grace Grantchester grass green hair hand happy Harold Monro hast hath hear heart Heaven hill honour king lady land leaves light live look Lord lovers Lycidas MARTYN SKINNER moon morning never night o'er pale pleasure Poems POETS praise quiet ring rose round Samian wine shade shine shore silent sing skies sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit spring stars stream sweet T. S. Eliot tears thee thine things thou art thought tree VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST voice W. B. Yeats wander waves weep wild wind wings woods