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... tears I wash away my balm , With mine own hands I give away my crown , With mine own tongue deny my sacred state , With mine own breath release all duty's rites . ABSENCE . Shakespeare , Ric . 11. IV . 1 . What ! keep a week away ...
... tears I wash away my balm , With mine own hands I give away my crown , With mine own tongue deny my sacred state , With mine own breath release all duty's rites . ABSENCE . Shakespeare , Ric . 11. IV . 1 . What ! keep a week away ...
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... tears my soul from thee . Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler , And daughters sometimes run off with the butler . Byron , Bride of Ab . Byron , Don Juan , III . 22 . O tell him I have sat these three long hours , Counting the ...
... tears my soul from thee . Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler , And daughters sometimes run off with the butler . Byron , Bride of Ab . Byron , Don Juan , III . 22 . O tell him I have sat these three long hours , Counting the ...
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... tear From passion's dross refined and clear . A tear so limpid and so meek , It would not stain an angel's cheek ... tears my soul from thee . Each was the other's mirror , and but read Joy sparkling in their dark eyes , like a gem ...
... tear From passion's dross refined and clear . A tear so limpid and so meek , It would not stain an angel's cheek ... tears my soul from thee . Each was the other's mirror , and but read Joy sparkling in their dark eyes , like a gem ...
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... tears . ANGLING . The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream , Byron , D. J. Byron , Doge V. Eliza Cook . And greedily devour the treacherous bait . Sh . M. Ado . III . 1 . Give me mine angle ...
... tears . ANGLING . The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream , Byron , D. J. Byron , Doge V. Eliza Cook . And greedily devour the treacherous bait . Sh . M. Ado . III . 1 . Give me mine angle ...
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... tear in beauty's eye , Love half regrets to kiss it dry ; So sweet the blush of bashfulness , E'en pity scarce can wish ... tears in many an English mother , Whose sons lie scatter'd on the bleeding ground . Many a widow's husband ...
... tear in beauty's eye , Love half regrets to kiss it dry ; So sweet the blush of bashfulness , E'en pity scarce can wish ... tears in many an English mother , Whose sons lie scatter'd on the bleeding ground . Many a widow's husband ...
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