The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: Edited from the Best Editions, with Memoir, Notes, and GlossaryThomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1984 - 715 pages |
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Page 234
... pow'r Ne the sharp northern wind thereon to show'r ; But lapped up her silken leaves most chare , Whenso the froward sky began to low'r ; But , soon as calmèd was the crystal air , She did it fair dispread and let to flourish fair . LII ...
... pow'r Ne the sharp northern wind thereon to show'r ; But lapped up her silken leaves most chare , Whenso the froward sky began to low'r ; But , soon as calmèd was the crystal air , She did it fair dispread and let to flourish fair . LII ...
Page 411
... pow'r and art That seeks to save the subject of her skill , Yet never doth from doom of right depart : As it is greater praise to save than spill , And better to reform than to cut off the ill . III . Who then can thee , Mercilla ...
... pow'r and art That seeks to save the subject of her skill , Yet never doth from doom of right depart : As it is greater praise to save than spill , And better to reform than to cut off the ill . III . Who then can thee , Mercilla ...
Page 412
... pow'r in one And setting up an idol of his own , Whom when his other fellows aw , they Then all. combined ; And eke all strangers , in that region Arriving , to his kine for food assign'd ; The fairest kine alive , but of the fiercest ...
... pow'r in one And setting up an idol of his own , Whom when his other fellows aw , they Then all. combined ; And eke all strangers , in that region Arriving , to his kine for food assign'd ; The fairest kine alive , but of the fiercest ...
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