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Yet softly , gentle strings , Agree with love that cannot sleep . Sorrow hist whenas it sings . When tears do fall then sighs arise . So grief oft shines in most sad eyes , Yea , love through heart it dies - it dies .
Yet softly , gentle strings , Agree with love that cannot sleep . Sorrow hist whenas it sings . When tears do fall then sighs arise . So grief oft shines in most sad eyes , Yea , love through heart it dies - it dies .
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Sweet sleep , with soft down Weave thy brows an infant crown . Sweet sleep , Angel mild , Hover o'er my happy child . Sweet smiles , in the night . Hover over my delight ; Sweet smiles , mother's smiles , All the livelong night beguiles ...
Sweet sleep , with soft down Weave thy brows an infant crown . Sweet sleep , Angel mild , Hover o'er my happy child . Sweet smiles , in the night . Hover over my delight ; Sweet smiles , mother's smiles , All the livelong night beguiles ...
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VIII " Tis midnight , but small thoughts have I of sleep : Full seldom may my friend such vigils keep ! Visit her , gentle Sleep ! with wings of healing , And may this storm be but a mountain- birth , May all the stars hang bright above ...
VIII " Tis midnight , but small thoughts have I of sleep : Full seldom may my friend such vigils keep ! Visit her , gentle Sleep ! with wings of healing , And may this storm be but a mountain- birth , May all the stars hang bright above ...
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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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