The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith: With Biographical Sketches and Notes |
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... sighs ; And Love the last : by these your hearts approve ; These are the virtues that must lead to love . " Thus sung the swain ; and ancient legends say The maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along ...
... sighs ; And Love the last : by these your hearts approve ; These are the virtues that must lead to love . " Thus sung the swain ; and ancient legends say The maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along ...
Page 34
... sighs could not detain ; Whom Zara's breaking heart implored in vain ! Yet , as thou go'st , may every blast arise Weak and unfelt as these rejected sighs ! Safe o'er the wild , no perils mayst thou see , No griefs endure , nor weep ...
... sighs could not detain ; Whom Zara's breaking heart implored in vain ! Yet , as thou go'st , may every blast arise Weak and unfelt as these rejected sighs ! Safe o'er the wild , no perils mayst thou see , No griefs endure , nor weep ...
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... sighing prompt her tender hand , With each disastrous tale . There let me oft , retired by day , In dreams of passion melt away , Allowed with thee to dwell : There waste the mournful lamp of night , Till , Virgin , thou again delight ...
... sighing prompt her tender hand , With each disastrous tale . There let me oft , retired by day , In dreams of passion melt away , Allowed with thee to dwell : There waste the mournful lamp of night , Till , Virgin , thou again delight ...
Page 59
... Aërial hands shall build thy tomb , With shadowy trophies crowned ; Whilst Honor bathed in tears shall rove To sigh thy name through every grove , And call his heroes round . The warlike dead of every age , Who fill the ODES . 59.
... Aërial hands shall build thy tomb , With shadowy trophies crowned ; Whilst Honor bathed in tears shall rove To sigh thy name through every grove , And call his heroes round . The warlike dead of every age , Who fill the ODES . 59.
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... sighs ? His fear - shook limbs have lost their youthful force , And down the waves he floats , a pale and breathless corse ! VIII . For him in vain his anxious wife shall wait , Or wander forth to meet him on his way ; For him in vain ...
... sighs ? His fear - shook limbs have lost their youthful force , And down the waves he floats , a pale and breathless corse ! VIII . For him in vain his anxious wife shall wait , Or wander forth to meet him on his way ; For him in vain ...
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