Poems, moral & entertaining, by a ladyW. Sheardown, 1808 - 153 pages |
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... prepare ; I know thee doomed of human ill , To feel thy melancholy share . Nor can my anxious wish prevent , One sorrow that must thee befal ; This boding heart can but lament , That sufferings are decreed to all . That all are subject ...
... prepare ; I know thee doomed of human ill , To feel thy melancholy share . Nor can my anxious wish prevent , One sorrow that must thee befal ; This boding heart can but lament , That sufferings are decreed to all . That all are subject ...
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... thee with nicest art . " When pleasure tempts with semblance fair , " Thy inexperienced foot to stray ; " Let modest caution first prepare , " And honor's lamp illume thy way . Lest ( as beneath that tufted bed , " You 40.
... thee with nicest art . " When pleasure tempts with semblance fair , " Thy inexperienced foot to stray ; " Let modest caution first prepare , " And honor's lamp illume thy way . Lest ( as beneath that tufted bed , " You 40.
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... prepare , For all who shall be , and for all who are ; But the mysterious when , or where , or how , Kindly concealed , we dare not wish to know : Our only certainty that life must tend , By means unnumbered to this common end , Some ...
... prepare , For all who shall be , and for all who are ; But the mysterious when , or where , or how , Kindly concealed , we dare not wish to know : Our only certainty that life must tend , By means unnumbered to this common end , Some ...
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... lest chance her design should reveal : She entreated to hasten the blow , It answered her wishes too well ; And ere Henry the error could know , The signal was dropt , and she fell , For his fate was her Henry prepared , But Ellen 76.
... lest chance her design should reveal : She entreated to hasten the blow , It answered her wishes too well ; And ere Henry the error could know , The signal was dropt , and she fell , For his fate was her Henry prepared , But Ellen 76.
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Poems. For his fate was her Henry prepared , But Ellen had caused a delay , In hopes that his life might be spared , If her own the dread forfeit should pay . Sweet maid , thy precaution was vain Thy heart - broken lover to save ; Not ...
Poems. For his fate was her Henry prepared , But Ellen had caused a delay , In hopes that his life might be spared , If her own the dread forfeit should pay . Sweet maid , thy precaution was vain Thy heart - broken lover to save ; Not ...
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