Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors ; from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 2Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... flower , The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour , And they wither and die in a day . Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast , Above all the flowers of the field ; Behold the God ! the ...
... flower , The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour , And they wither and die in a day . Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast , Above all the flowers of the field ; Behold the God ! the ...
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... flowers : Or when the mournful tale her mother told , Of what her faithless fortune promised once , Thrilled in her thought , they , like the dewy star Of evening , shone in tears . A native grace Sat fair - proportioned on her polished ...
... flowers : Or when the mournful tale her mother told , Of what her faithless fortune promised once , Thrilled in her thought , they , like the dewy star Of evening , shone in tears . A native grace Sat fair - proportioned on her polished ...
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... flower to flower on balmy gales to fly , Is all she has to do beneath the radiant sky . .Behold the merry minstrels of the morn , The swarming songsters of the careless grove , Ten thousand throats ! that from the flowering thorn , Hymn ...
... flower to flower on balmy gales to fly , Is all she has to do beneath the radiant sky . .Behold the merry minstrels of the morn , The swarming songsters of the careless grove , Ten thousand throats ! that from the flowering thorn , Hymn ...
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... flowers , To deck the ground where thou art laid . When howling winds , and beating rain , In tempests shake thy sylvan cell , Or midst the chase on every plain , The tender thought on thee shall dwell . Each lonely scene shall thee ...
... flowers , To deck the ground where thou art laid . When howling winds , and beating rain , In tempests shake thy sylvan cell , Or midst the chase on every plain , The tender thought on thee shall dwell . Each lonely scene shall thee ...
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... flower disclosed a gaudy streak , But herbs for use and physic , not a few , Of gray renown , within those borders ... flowers ; For when my bones in grass - green sods are laid , Oh never may ye taste more careless hours In knightly ...
... flower disclosed a gaudy streak , But herbs for use and physic , not a few , Of gray renown , within those borders ... flowers ; For when my bones in grass - green sods are laid , Oh never may ye taste more careless hours In knightly ...
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