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Her face was like the April morn , Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay - cold was her lilly hand , That held her sable throud . So Mall the faiiest face appear , When youth and years are flown ; Such is the robe that kings must wear ...
Her face was like the April morn , Clad in a wintry cloud ; And clay - cold was her lilly hand , That held her sable throud . So Mall the faiiest face appear , When youth and years are flown ; Such is the robe that kings must wear ...
Page 48
How cou'd you say my face was fair , And yet that face forsake ? How cou'd you win my virgin heart , Yet leave that heart to break ? How cou'd you promise love to me , And not that promise keep ? Why did you swear mine eyes were bright ...
How cou'd you say my face was fair , And yet that face forsake ? How cou'd you win my virgin heart , Yet leave that heart to break ? How cou'd you promise love to me , And not that promise keep ? Why did you swear mine eyes were bright ...
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And here we nuft observe , that the circumstances of her rolling her horrid eyes ; the spreading of her ghaftly face , and growing larger to his fight ; the ferpents histing round her head ; her snatching two of thein from her locks ...
And here we nuft observe , that the circumstances of her rolling her horrid eyes ; the spreading of her ghaftly face , and growing larger to his fight ; the ferpents histing round her head ; her snatching two of thein from her locks ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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