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... Hath been an idler in the land ; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand . Come hither in thy hour of strength ; Come , weak as is a breaking wave ! Here stretch thy body at full length ; Or build thy house upon ...
... Hath been an idler in the land ; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand . Come hither in thy hour of strength ; Come , weak as is a breaking wave ! Here stretch thy body at full length ; Or build thy house upon ...
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... hath a shrine . LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON . FROM ,, THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . " Call it not vain : they do not err , Who say , that when the Poet dies , Mute Nature mourns her worshipper , And celebrates his obsequies : Who say ...
... hath a shrine . LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON . FROM ,, THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . " Call it not vain : they do not err , Who say , that when the Poet dies , Mute Nature mourns her worshipper , And celebrates his obsequies : Who say ...
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... Hath ever thrill'd thy bosom , thou wilt tread , As with a pilgrim's reverential thoughts , The groves of Penshurst . Sidney * here was born . Sidney , than whom no gentler , braver man His own delightful genius ever feign'd ...
... Hath ever thrill'd thy bosom , thou wilt tread , As with a pilgrim's reverential thoughts , The groves of Penshurst . Sidney * here was born . Sidney , than whom no gentler , braver man His own delightful genius ever feign'd ...
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... HATH LEFT US . To draw no envy , Shakspeare , on thy name , Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such , As neither man , nor Muse , can praise too much . ' Tis true , and all men's suffrage . But ...
... HATH LEFT US . To draw no envy , Shakspeare , on thy name , Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such , As neither man , nor Muse , can praise too much . ' Tis true , and all men's suffrage . But ...
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... hath mourn'd like night , And despairs day , but for thy volume's light . BEN JONSON . AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET , WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . What needs my Shakspeare for his honoured bones , The labour of an age in piled ...
... hath mourn'd like night , And despairs day , but for thy volume's light . BEN JONSON . AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET , WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . What needs my Shakspeare for his honoured bones , The labour of an age in piled ...
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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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