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Others more milde , Retreated in a silent valley , sing With notes angelical to many a harp Thir own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battel ; and complain that Fate 550 Free Vertue should enthrall to Force or Chance .
Others more milde , Retreated in a silent valley , sing With notes angelical to many a harp Thir own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battel ; and complain that Fate 550 Free Vertue should enthrall to Force or Chance .
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Thus when dispers'd a routed army runs , Of Asia's troops , and Afric's sable sons , With like confusion diff'rent nations fly , Of various habit , and of various dye ; The pierced battalions disunited fall In heaps on heaps ; one fate ...
Thus when dispers'd a routed army runs , Of Asia's troops , and Afric's sable sons , With like confusion diff'rent nations fly , Of various habit , and of various dye ; The pierced battalions disunited fall In heaps on heaps ; one fate ...
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Such is the fate of artless maid , Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade , By love's simplicity betray'd , Till she like thee , all soil'd , is laid And guileless trust , Low i ' the dust . Such is the fate of simple bard , On life's rough ...
Such is the fate of artless maid , Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade , By love's simplicity betray'd , Till she like thee , all soil'd , is laid And guileless trust , Low i ' the dust . Such is the fate of simple bard , On life's rough ...
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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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| 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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