Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue : and with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry |
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... forrow fly . For her I mow my walks , I plat my bow'rs , Clip my low hedges , and fupport my flow`rs ; To welcome her , this fummer - feat I drest , And here I court her when the comes to reft ; When the from exercife to learned eafe ...
... forrow fly . For her I mow my walks , I plat my bow'rs , Clip my low hedges , and fupport my flow`rs ; To welcome her , this fummer - feat I drest , And here I court her when the comes to reft ; When the from exercife to learned eafe ...
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... forrows of thy breaft ? From better habitation spurn'd , " Reluctant doft thou rove ; Or grieve for friendship unreturn'd , " Or unregarded love ? " Alas ! the joys that fortune brings , “ Are trifling , and decay ; " And those who ...
... forrows of thy breaft ? From better habitation spurn'd , " Reluctant doft thou rove ; Or grieve for friendship unreturn'd , " Or unregarded love ? " Alas ! the joys that fortune brings , “ Are trifling , and decay ; " And those who ...
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... forrows hufh , " And fpurn the fex , " he said : But , while he spoke , a rifing blush His love - lorn guest betray'd . Surpriz'd , he fees new beauties rise . Swift mantling to the view , Like colours o'er the morning fkies , As bright ...
... forrows hufh , " And fpurn the fex , " he said : But , while he spoke , a rifing blush His love - lorn guest betray'd . Surpriz'd , he fees new beauties rise . Swift mantling to the view , Like colours o'er the morning fkies , As bright ...
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... 'd my heart , " I triumph'd in his pain : Till , quite dejected with my " He left me to my pride , fcorn , " And fought a folitude forlorn , " In fecret , where he died . " But mine the forrow , mine the fault , SELECT POEMS .
... 'd my heart , " I triumph'd in his pain : Till , quite dejected with my " He left me to my pride , fcorn , " And fought a folitude forlorn , " In fecret , where he died . " But mine the forrow , mine the fault , SELECT POEMS .
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... forrow , mine the fault , " And well my life fhall pay : " I'll feek the folitude he fought , " And stretch me where he lay . " And there , forlorn , defpairing hid , " I'll lay me down and die ; " Twas fo for me that Edwin did , " And ...
... forrow , mine the fault , " And well my life fhall pay : " I'll feek the folitude he fought , " And stretch me where he lay . " And there , forlorn , defpairing hid , " I'll lay me down and die ; " Twas fo for me that Edwin did , " And ...
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