Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1791 - English poetry |
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Page 81
... wind blow the earth into the fea ; Or fwell the curled waters ' bove the main , That things might change , or cease : tears his white hair , ( Which the impetuous blafts , with eyelefs rage , Catch in their fury ; ) Strives in his ...
... wind blow the earth into the fea ; Or fwell the curled waters ' bove the main , That things might change , or cease : tears his white hair , ( Which the impetuous blafts , with eyelefs rage , Catch in their fury ; ) Strives in his ...
Page 190
... Winds . Ibid . -LIKE as a boiftrous wind , [ hid , And fhut up faft within her prifons blind , Makes the huge element against her kind To move , and tremble as it were aghaft , Until that it an iflue forth may find , Then forth it ...
... Winds . Ibid . -LIKE as a boiftrous wind , [ hid , And fhut up faft within her prifons blind , Makes the huge element against her kind To move , and tremble as it were aghaft , Until that it an iflue forth may find , Then forth it ...
Page 343
... wind , And drizzly rain doth fall . Ostay me not , thou holy friar , Oftay me not , I pray ; No drizzly rain that falls on me Can wash my fault away . Yet ftay , fair lady , turn again , And dry thofe pearly tears ; gown of For fee ...
... wind , And drizzly rain doth fall . Ostay me not , thou holy friar , Oftay me not , I pray ; No drizzly rain that falls on me Can wash my fault away . Yet ftay , fair lady , turn again , And dry thofe pearly tears ; gown of For fee ...
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