Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 2Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... pain , and shrinking back from death , In treason to my soul , descend to bear , Trusting to fate , I neither know nor care . Once , at this hour whose wounds afresh I feel , Which nor prosperity nor time can heal , * # * Those wounds ...
... pain , and shrinking back from death , In treason to my soul , descend to bear , Trusting to fate , I neither know nor care . Once , at this hour whose wounds afresh I feel , Which nor prosperity nor time can heal , * # * Those wounds ...
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... pain . Where shall my hope find rest ? No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer : No father's guardian hand my youth main- tained , Called forth my virtues , or from vice re- strained ; Is it not thine to snatch some ...
... pain . Where shall my hope find rest ? No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer : No father's guardian hand my youth main- tained , Called forth my virtues , or from vice re- strained ; Is it not thine to snatch some ...
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... pain ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night , E'en in the zenith of her dark domain , Is sunshine to the colour of my fate . Night , sable goddess ! throne , from her ebon In rayless ...
... pain ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night , E'en in the zenith of her dark domain , Is sunshine to the colour of my fate . Night , sable goddess ! throne , from her ebon In rayless ...
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... pain , and chance , and death expire ! And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought , And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal , spending all her fires , Wasting her strength in ...
... pain , and chance , and death expire ! And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought , And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal , spending all her fires , Wasting her strength in ...
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... pains . Lo Pug from Jupiter her heart has got , Turns out the stars , and Newton is a sot . Edward Young . - Born 1681 ... pain ( Vain is the task to petticoats assign'd , If wanton language shows a naked mind . ) And now and then , to ...
... pains . Lo Pug from Jupiter her heart has got , Turns out the stars , and Newton is a sot . Edward Young . - Born 1681 ... pain ( Vain is the task to petticoats assign'd , If wanton language shows a naked mind . ) And now and then , to ...
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