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... Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . SHAKSPEARE . POESY ...
... Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . SHAKSPEARE . POESY ...
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... doth run . I was a Traveller then upon the moor ; I saw the hare that raced about with joy ; I heard the woods and distant waters roar ; Or heard them not , as happy as a boy : The pleasant season did my heart employ : My old ...
... doth run . I was a Traveller then upon the moor ; I saw the hare that raced about with joy ; I heard the woods and distant waters roar ; Or heard them not , as happy as a boy : The pleasant season did my heart employ : My old ...
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... doth share , And colder brains like colder climates are : In vain they toil , since nothing can beget A vital spirit , but a vital heat . That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are ...
... doth share , And colder brains like colder climates are : In vain they toil , since nothing can beget A vital spirit , but a vital heat . That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are ...
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... doth die ; And this security , It is the common moth , That eats on wits and arts , and so destroys them both : Are all the Aonian springs Dried up ? lies Thespia waste ? Doth Clarius ' harp want strings , That not a nymph now sings ...
... doth die ; And this security , It is the common moth , That eats on wits and arts , and so destroys them both : Are all the Aonian springs Dried up ? lies Thespia waste ? Doth Clarius ' harp want strings , That not a nymph now sings ...
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... doth ne'er advance The truth , but gropes , and urgeth all by chance , Or crafty malice might pretend this praise , And think to ruin , where it seem'd to raise . But thou art proof against them , and , indeed , Above the ill fortune of ...
... doth ne'er advance The truth , but gropes , and urgeth all by chance , Or crafty malice might pretend this praise , And think to ruin , where it seem'd to raise . But thou art proof against them , and , indeed , Above the ill fortune of ...
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The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock. a Book of English Poetry, Chiefly Modern Ferdinand Freiligrath No preview available - 2015 |
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