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Page 494
Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchang'd for useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they waste ; 400 Seen opulence , her grandeur to maintain ...
Have we not seen , round Britain's peopled shore , Her useful sons exchang'd for useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste , Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they waste ; 400 Seen opulence , her grandeur to maintain ...
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430 A good report did from their Kinsman come , Of Luke and his well - doing : and the Boy Wrote loving letters , full of wondrous news , Which , as the Housewife phrased it , were throughout " The prettiest letters that were ever seen ...
430 A good report did from their Kinsman come , Of Luke and his well - doing : and the Boy Wrote loving letters , full of wondrous news , Which , as the Housewife phrased it , were throughout " The prettiest letters that were ever seen ...
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... Scholar long was seen to stray , Seen by rare glimpses , pensive and tongue - tied , In hat of antique shape , and cloak of grey , The same the gipsies wore . Shepherds had met him on the Hurst in spring ; At some lone alehouse in ...
... Scholar long was seen to stray , Seen by rare glimpses , pensive and tongue - tied , In hat of antique shape , and cloak of grey , The same the gipsies wore . Shepherds had met him on the Hurst in spring ; At some lone alehouse in ...
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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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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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