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... Thing Agnes . Oh , no --- we met . not ev'n when first A Heaven upon Earth John Anderson , my jo To Mary Sonnet . To a Friend Lullaby To my Daughter on her Birth- day Sonnet : ,, Ye unseen Spirits , whose wild melodies XVIII.
... Thing Agnes . Oh , no --- we met . not ev'n when first A Heaven upon Earth John Anderson , my jo To Mary Sonnet . To a Friend Lullaby To my Daughter on her Birth- day Sonnet : ,, Ye unseen Spirits , whose wild melodies XVIII.
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... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . SHAKSPEARE . POESY . ( FROM ,, EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR . * " ) I can refel opinion ; and approve The state of Poesie , such ...
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . SHAKSPEARE . POESY . ( FROM ,, EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR . * " ) I can refel opinion ; and approve The state of Poesie , such ...
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... things that love the sun are out of doors ; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain - drops ; The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist ; that ...
... things that love the sun are out of doors ; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain - drops ; The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist ; that ...
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... things would come unsought To genial faith , still rich in genial good ;. But how can He expect that others should ... thing endued with sense : Like a sea - beast crawled forth , that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth , there to sun ...
... things would come unsought To genial faith , still rich in genial good ;. But how can He expect that others should ... thing endued with sense : Like a sea - beast crawled forth , that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth , there to sun ...
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... thing , earth's feeblest worm , He fear'd to scorn or hate ; And honour'd in a peasant's form The equal of the great . But if he lov'd the rich who make The poor man's little more , Ill could he praise the rich who take From plunder'd ...
... thing , earth's feeblest worm , He fear'd to scorn or hate ; And honour'd in a peasant's form The equal of the great . But if he lov'd the rich who make The poor man's little more , Ill could he praise the rich who take From plunder'd ...
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