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... fear'd . Could I believe , that winds for ages pent In earth's dark womb have found at last a vent , And from their prison - house below arise , With all these hideous howlings to the skies , I could be much compos'd , nor should appear ...
... fear'd . Could I believe , that winds for ages pent In earth's dark womb have found at last a vent , And from their prison - house below arise , With all these hideous howlings to the skies , I could be much compos'd , nor should appear ...
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... FEAR . THOU , to whom the world unknown With all its shad'wy shapes is shown ; Who seest appall'd th2 unreal scene , While Fancy lifts the veil between : Ah Fear ! ah frantic Fear ! I see , I see thee near . I know thy hurried step ...
... FEAR . THOU , to whom the world unknown With all its shad'wy shapes is shown ; Who seest appall'd th2 unreal scene , While Fancy lifts the veil between : Ah Fear ! ah frantic Fear ! I see , I see thee near . I know thy hurried step ...
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... fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm . Thy best of rest is sleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy death , which is no more . Thou'rt not thyself ; For thou exist'st on many thousand grains , That issue out ...
... fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm . Thy best of rest is sleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy death , which is no more . Thou'rt not thyself ; For thou exist'st on many thousand grains , That issue out ...
Contents
Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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