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... wings ; Now all thy figures are allow'd , And various shape of things . Create of airy forms a stream , It must have blood , and nought of phlegm ; And though it be a waking dream , CHORUS . Yet let it like an odour rise To all the ...
... wings ; Now all thy figures are allow'd , And various shape of things . Create of airy forms a stream , It must have blood , and nought of phlegm ; And though it be a waking dream , CHORUS . Yet let it like an odour rise To all the ...
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... Wing'd with their own wild echoes , prattling fly . She opes the floodgate , and lets loose a tide Of streaming sweetness , which in state doth ride On the way'd back of every swelling strain , Rising and falling in a pompous train ...
... Wing'd with their own wild echoes , prattling fly . She opes the floodgate , and lets loose a tide Of streaming sweetness , which in state doth ride On the way'd back of every swelling strain , Rising and falling in a pompous train ...
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... wings Of silence through the empty - vaulted night , At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness , till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three , She can teach you how to climb Higher than the 61.
... wings Of silence through the empty - vaulted night , At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness , till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three , She can teach you how to climb Higher than the 61.
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... wing About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and Cassia's balmy smells . Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks , that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can shew , And drenches with Elysian dew ( List ...
... wing About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and Cassia's balmy smells . Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks , that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can shew , And drenches with Elysian dew ( List ...
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... wings . The poem is too long to quote entire , but I have culled a few of its best stanzas : I. First born of Chaos , who so fair didst come From the old Negro's darksome womb ! Which , when it saw the lovely child , The melancholy mass ...
... wings . The poem is too long to quote entire , but I have culled a few of its best stanzas : I. First born of Chaos , who so fair didst come From the old Negro's darksome womb ! Which , when it saw the lovely child , The melancholy mass ...
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