The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 64
... whofe top an hawthorn blows , Amid whofe thickly - woven boughs Some nightingale ftill builds her neft , Each evening warbling thee to rest . Then lay me by the haunted fiream , Wrapt in fome wild , poetick dream ; In converfe while ...
... whofe top an hawthorn blows , Amid whofe thickly - woven boughs Some nightingale ftill builds her neft , Each evening warbling thee to rest . Then lay me by the haunted fiream , Wrapt in fome wild , poetick dream ; In converfe while ...
Page 69
... whofe heedless eye , Shall fcorn thy pale thrine glimm'ring near ? With him , fweet bard , may fancy die , And joy desert the blooming year . But thou , lorn ftream , whofe fullen tide No fedge crown'd fifters now attend , Now waft me ...
... whofe heedless eye , Shall fcorn thy pale thrine glimm'ring near ? With him , fweet bard , may fancy die , And joy desert the blooming year . But thou , lorn ftream , whofe fullen tide No fedge crown'd fifters now attend , Now waft me ...
Page 77
... whofe ftreams , fays he , lie remote , and out of the common road . From all which he infers , that it is better to moderate our defires , and fet bounds to our avarice and ambition ; with which moral precept he concludes the ode ...
... whofe ftreams , fays he , lie remote , and out of the common road . From all which he infers , that it is better to moderate our defires , and fet bounds to our avarice and ambition ; with which moral precept he concludes the ode ...
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