Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Philips. WalshSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... She wept at hearing fuch a tragedy , Though wont in mournful ditties to delight . If thou diflike thefe forrowful lines , then know My Mufe with tears , not with conceits did How : And as the my unabler quill did guide , Her briny tears ...
... She wept at hearing fuch a tragedy , Though wont in mournful ditties to delight . If thou diflike thefe forrowful lines , then know My Mufe with tears , not with conceits did How : And as the my unabler quill did guide , Her briny tears ...
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... She , by her friends and near acquaintance led , Like other maids , would walk at break of day : Aurora blush'd to fee a fight unknown , To behold cheeks more beauteous than her own . Th ' obfequious lover follows ftill her train , And ...
... She , by her friends and near acquaintance led , Like other maids , would walk at break of day : Aurora blush'd to fee a fight unknown , To behold cheeks more beauteous than her own . Th ' obfequious lover follows ftill her train , And ...
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... She took a lute ( being far from any ears ) And tun'd this fong , pofing that harmony Which poets attribute to heavenly spheres . Thus had the fung when her dear love was flain , She'd furely call'd him back from Styx again . THE 1 ...
... She took a lute ( being far from any ears ) And tun'd this fong , pofing that harmony Which poets attribute to heavenly spheres . Thus had the fung when her dear love was flain , She'd furely call'd him back from Styx again . THE 1 ...
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... She to her brother runs , His cold and lifeless body does embrace ; She calls to him that cannot hear her moans , And with her kiffes warms his clammy face . " My dear Philocrates ! " fhe , weeping , cries , Speak to thy fifter ! " but ...
... She to her brother runs , His cold and lifeless body does embrace ; She calls to him that cannot hear her moans , And with her kiffes warms his clammy face . " My dear Philocrates ! " fhe , weeping , cries , Speak to thy fifter ! " but ...
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... she ' gan Against her Pyramus for to exclaim , While various thoughts tnrmoil her troubled brain : And , imitating thus the filver fwan , A little while before her death , she fang : THE I. SONG . Will vanish ere we tafte delight : NOME ...
... she ' gan Against her Pyramus for to exclaim , While various thoughts tnrmoil her troubled brain : And , imitating thus the filver fwan , A little while before her death , she fang : THE I. SONG . Will vanish ere we tafte delight : NOME ...
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Page 120 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King, Of wedded maid, and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
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