The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 67
... o'er thy darling's grave . O queen of numbers once again , Animate some chosen swain , Who fill'd with unexhaufted fire , May boldly fmite the founding lyre , Who with fome new , unequall'd song , May rife above the rhyming throng ; O'er ...
... o'er thy darling's grave . O queen of numbers once again , Animate some chosen swain , Who fill'd with unexhaufted fire , May boldly fmite the founding lyre , Who with fome new , unequall'd song , May rife above the rhyming throng ; O'er ...
Page 88
... O'er death and o'er hell ; A conqueft how hard and how glorious ! Tho ' fate had faft bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet mufic and love were victorious But foon , too foon , the lover turns his eyes : Again the falls , again ...
... O'er death and o'er hell ; A conqueft how hard and how glorious ! Tho ' fate had faft bound her With Styx nine times round her , Yet mufic and love were victorious But foon , too foon , the lover turns his eyes : Again the falls , again ...
Page 237
... O'er the wide earth , and o'er the boundlefs main . He grafps the wand that caufes fleep to fly , Or in foft flumbers feals the wakeful eye : Then fhoots from heav'n to high Pieria's steep , And floops incumbent on the rolling deep . So ...
... O'er the wide earth , and o'er the boundlefs main . He grafps the wand that caufes fleep to fly , Or in foft flumbers feals the wakeful eye : Then fhoots from heav'n to high Pieria's steep , And floops incumbent on the rolling deep . So ...
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