The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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... earth so the humblest of earth's creatures can be irradiated with the light of their celestial home . The ' bare naked wretches ' who are clothed by the Almoner of the House of Holiness are enshrined in one of Spenser's most beautiful ...
... earth so the humblest of earth's creatures can be irradiated with the light of their celestial home . The ' bare naked wretches ' who are clothed by the Almoner of the House of Holiness are enshrined in one of Spenser's most beautiful ...
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... earth did kis , Greeting his graue ; his grudging ghost did striue With the fraile flesh ; at last it flitted is , Whither the soules do fly of men , that liue amis . 20 The Lady when she saw her champion fall , Like the old ruines of a ...
... earth did kis , Greeting his graue ; his grudging ghost did striue With the fraile flesh ; at last it flitted is , Whither the soules do fly of men , that liue amis . 20 The Lady when she saw her champion fall , Like the old ruines of a ...
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... earth : The earth shall sooner leaue her kindly skill To bring forth fruit , and make eternall derth , Then I leaue you , my liefe , yborne of heauenly berth . Therewith in haste his helmet gan vnlace , Till Vna cride , O hold that ...
... earth : The earth shall sooner leaue her kindly skill To bring forth fruit , and make eternall derth , Then I leaue you , my liefe , yborne of heauenly berth . Therewith in haste his helmet gan vnlace , Till Vna cride , O hold that ...
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... earth for terrour seemd to shake , And trees did tremble . Th'Elfe therewith astownd , Vpstarted lightly from his looser make , And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take . 8 But ere he could his armour on him dight , Or get his shield ...
... earth for terrour seemd to shake , And trees did tremble . Th'Elfe therewith astownd , Vpstarted lightly from his looser make , And his vnready weapons gan in hand to take . 8 But ere he could his armour on him dight , Or get his shield ...
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... earth , casts vp a mount of clay . IO His boystrous club , so buried in the ground , He could not rearen vp againe so light , But that the knight him at auantage found , And whiles he stroue his combred clubbe to quight Out of the earth ...
... earth , casts vp a mount of clay . IO His boystrous club , so buried in the ground , He could not rearen vp againe so light , But that the knight him at auantage found , And whiles he stroue his combred clubbe to quight Out of the earth ...
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