Minor English Poets, 1660-1780: A Selection from Alexander Chalmers' The English Poets, Volume 6David P. French B. Blom, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 437
... skies . If droughty regions parch The skin and lungs , and bake the thickening blood ; 1 Deep in the waving forest choose your seat , Where fuming trees refresh the thirsty air ; And wake the fountains from their secret beds , And into ...
... skies . If droughty regions parch The skin and lungs , and bake the thickening blood ; 1 Deep in the waving forest choose your seat , Where fuming trees refresh the thirsty air ; And wake the fountains from their secret beds , And into ...
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... skies . What pleasing scenes the landscape wide dis- plays ! Th ' enchanting prospect bids for ever gaze . Hail charming fields , of happy swains the care ! Hail happy swains , possest of fields so fair ! In peace your plenteous labours ...
... skies . What pleasing scenes the landscape wide dis- plays ! Th ' enchanting prospect bids for ever gaze . Hail charming fields , of happy swains the care ! Hail happy swains , possest of fields so fair ! In peace your plenteous labours ...
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... skies ; Collected now progressive proudly sail , And ride high borne upon the trading gale ; Now ' thwart the trope , or zone antarctic steer , And now aloof the Cape's emergence veer ; Now wheeling dext'rous wind the Ethiop main , And ...
... skies ; Collected now progressive proudly sail , And ride high borne upon the trading gale ; Now ' thwart the trope , or zone antarctic steer , And now aloof the Cape's emergence veer ; Now wheeling dext'rous wind the Ethiop main , And ...
Contents
The Regicide | 17 |
Poems of Wilkie | 55 |
The Authors Preface to his Epigoniad | 69 |
Copyright | |
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