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When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets 4 To swaddle infants , whose young breath Scarce knows the way , Those clouts are little winding - sheets , Which do consign and send them unto death . When boyes go first to bed , ΙΟ They ...
When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets 4 To swaddle infants , whose young breath Scarce knows the way , Those clouts are little winding - sheets , Which do consign and send them unto death . When boyes go first to bed , ΙΟ They ...
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Then Lamia breath'd death breath ; the sophist's eye , Like a sharp spear , went through her ut- terly , 300 Keen , cruel , perceant , 67 stinging : she , as well No ! As her weak hand could any meaning tell ...
Then Lamia breath'd death breath ; the sophist's eye , Like a sharp spear , went through her ut- terly , 300 Keen , cruel , perceant , 67 stinging : she , as well No ! As her weak hand could any meaning tell ...
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Only I know that I leaned low and drank A long draught from the water where she sank , Her breath and all her tears and all her soul : And as I leaned , I know I felt Love's face Pressed on my neck with moan of pity and grace ...
Only I know that I leaned low and drank A long draught from the water where she sank , Her breath and all her tears and all her soul : And as I leaned , I know I felt Love's face Pressed on my neck with moan of pity and grace ...
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Contents
Medieval Lyrics | 1 |
The Franklins Tale | 16 |
The wordes of the Host to the Phisicien | 28 |
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arms beauty breath bright bring clouds cold dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream earth eyes face fair fall fear feel fields fire flowers give grace green hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hill hope hour kind King lady land leave less light live look Lord lost meet mind morning move Nature never night o'er once pain pass poem pride published rest rise rose round seemed seen side sight sing sleep song soon soul sound spirit spring stand stars stood sweet tears tell thee thine things thou thought till true turn voice wild wind woods Written youth
Bibliographic information
| Title | An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry |
| Editors | Howard Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp |
| Contributor | Margaret Farrand Thorp |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1947 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1232 pages |
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