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Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares ; Men reckon what it did and meant , But trepidation of the spheares ... so As stiffe twin compasses are two ; Thy soule the fixt foot , makes no show To move , but doth , if the other doe .
Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares ; Men reckon what it did and meant , But trepidation of the spheares ... so As stiffe twin compasses are two ; Thy soule the fixt foot , makes no show To move , but doth , if the other doe .
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... But when loud surges lash the sounding shore , The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar . When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , 170 The line , too , labours , and the words move slow : Not ...
... But when loud surges lash the sounding shore , The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar . When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , 170 The line , too , labours , and the words move slow : Not ...
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Arise and fly The reeling Faun , the sensual feast ; Move upward , working out the beast And let the ape and tiger die . CXXI Sad Hesper 79 o'er the buried sun And ready , thou , to die with him , Thou watchest all things ever dim And ...
Arise and fly The reeling Faun , the sensual feast ; Move upward , working out the beast And let the ape and tiger die . CXXI Sad Hesper 79 o'er the buried sun And ready , thou , to die with him , Thou watchest all things ever dim And ...
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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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