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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... stream of pensive loveliness . How sweetly he sings in the shadow of death ! Nor let us too severely blame his allusion to the old Pagan mythology , in the words- I hear the helpless wail , the shriek of woe , I see the muddy wave , the ...
... stream of pensive loveliness . How sweetly he sings in the shadow of death ! Nor let us too severely blame his allusion to the old Pagan mythology , in the words- I hear the helpless wail , the shriek of woe , I see the muddy wave , the ...
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... stream ; Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief , That slides his hand under the miser's pillow , And carries off his prize . world ? - What is this What but a spacious burial field unwall'd , Strew'd with death's spoils ...
... stream ; Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief , That slides his hand under the miser's pillow , And carries off his prize . world ? - What is this What but a spacious burial field unwall'd , Strew'd with death's spoils ...
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... stream , They frame the first foundation of their domes , Dry sprigs of trees , in artful fabric laid , And bound with clay together . Now ' tis nought But restless hurry through the busy air , Beat by unnumber'd wings . The swallow ...
... stream , They frame the first foundation of their domes , Dry sprigs of trees , in artful fabric laid , And bound with clay together . Now ' tis nought But restless hurry through the busy air , Beat by unnumber'd wings . The swallow ...
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... stream that down the distant rocks Hoarse - murmuring fell , and plaintive breeze that play'd Among the bending willows , falsely he Of Musidora's cruelty complain'd . She felt his flame ; but deep within her breast , In bashful coyness ...
... stream that down the distant rocks Hoarse - murmuring fell , and plaintive breeze that play'd Among the bending willows , falsely he Of Musidora's cruelty complain'd . She felt his flame ; but deep within her breast , In bashful coyness ...
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... stream Incumbent hung , she with the sylvan pen Of rural lovers this confession carved , Which soon her Damon kiss'd with weeping joy : " Dear youth ! sole judge of what these verses mean , By fortune too much favour'd , but by love ...
... stream Incumbent hung , she with the sylvan pen Of rural lovers this confession carved , Which soon her Damon kiss'd with weeping joy : " Dear youth ! sole judge of what these verses mean , By fortune too much favour'd , but by love ...
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