The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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... groves , But charm'd to silence , listens while she sings , And all th ' aërial audience clap their wings . Soon as the flocks shook off the nightly dews , Two swains , whom love kept wakeful , and the muse , Pour'd o'er the whitening ...
... groves , But charm'd to silence , listens while she sings , And all th ' aërial audience clap their wings . Soon as the flocks shook off the nightly dews , Two swains , whom love kept wakeful , and the muse , Pour'd o'er the whitening ...
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... groves ; Diana Cynthus , Ceres Hybla loves : If Windsor shades delight the matchless maid , Cynthus and Hybla yield to Windsor - shade . STREPHON . All nature mourns , the skies relent in showers , Hush'd are the birds , and clos'd the ...
... groves ; Diana Cynthus , Ceres Hybla loves : If Windsor shades delight the matchless maid , Cynthus and Hybla yield to Windsor - shade . STREPHON . All nature mourns , the skies relent in showers , Hush'd are the birds , and clos'd the ...
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... grove , While your Alexis pines in hopeless love ? In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides , Or else where Cam ... groves my Rosalinda's name . But now the reeds shall hang on yonder tree , For ever silent , since despis'd by thee ...
... grove , While your Alexis pines in hopeless love ? In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides , Or else where Cam ... groves my Rosalinda's name . But now the reeds shall hang on yonder tree , For ever silent , since despis'd by thee ...
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... grove no lurking viper hides , But in my breast the serpent love abides . Here bees from blossoms sip the rosy dew , But your Alexis knows no sweets but you . Oh deign to visit our forsaken seats , The mossy fountains , and the green ...
... grove no lurking viper hides , But in my breast the serpent love abides . Here bees from blossoms sip the rosy dew , But your Alexis knows no sweets but you . Oh deign to visit our forsaken seats , The mossy fountains , and the green ...
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... grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your sacred succours bring ; Hylas and Ægon's rural lays I sing . Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit inspire , The art of Terence and Menander's fire ; Whose sense instructs us , and whose humour charms ...
... grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your sacred succours bring ; Hylas and Ægon's rural lays I sing . Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit inspire , The art of Terence and Menander's fire ; Whose sense instructs us , and whose humour charms ...
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