An Oxford Anthology of English PoetryHoward Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp |
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... less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date . What want these outlaws conquerors should have But history's purchased page to call them great ? A wider space , an ornamented grave ? Their hopes were not less warm , their souls were ...
... less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date . What want these outlaws conquerors should have But history's purchased page to call them great ? A wider space , an ornamented grave ? Their hopes were not less warm , their souls were ...
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... less , so much less , Someone says , -- ( I know his name , no matter ) — so much less ! Well , less is more , Lucrezia : am judged . There burns a truer light of God in them , In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped- up brain , 80 ...
... less , so much less , Someone says , -- ( I know his name , no matter ) — so much less ! Well , less is more , Lucrezia : am judged . There burns a truer light of God in them , In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped- up brain , 80 ...
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... less prompt to meet the morn- ing dew , The heart less bounding at emotion new , And hope , once crush'd , less quick to spring again . 140 And long the way appears , which seem'd so short To the less practised eye of sanguine youth ...
... less prompt to meet the morn- ing dew , The heart less bounding at emotion new , And hope , once crush'd , less quick to spring again . 140 And long the way appears , which seem'd so short To the less practised eye of sanguine youth ...
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Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen | 24 |
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