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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... Thou met'st , and fell on the Braes of Yarrow . Sweet smells the birk , green grows , green grows the grass , Yellow on Yarrow bank the gowan , Fair hangs the apple frae the rock , Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowan . Flows Yarrow sweet ...
... Thou met'st , and fell on the Braes of Yarrow . Sweet smells the birk , green grows , green grows the grass , Yellow on Yarrow bank the gowan , Fair hangs the apple frae the rock , Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowan . Flows Yarrow sweet ...
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... thou , sweet Poetry , thou loveliest maid , Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ! Unfit , in these degen'rate times of shame , To catch the heart , or strike for honest fame , Dear charming nymph , neglected and decried , My ...
... thou , sweet Poetry , thou loveliest maid , Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ! Unfit , in these degen'rate times of shame , To catch the heart , or strike for honest fame , Dear charming nymph , neglected and decried , My ...
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... thou so oft hast sworn to me , To leave me in this lonely grove , Immured in shameful privity ? No more thou com'st , with lover's speed , Thy once beloved bride to see ; But be she alive , or be she dead , I fear , stern Earl's the ...
... thou so oft hast sworn to me , To leave me in this lonely grove , Immured in shameful privity ? No more thou com'st , with lover's speed , Thy once beloved bride to see ; But be she alive , or be she dead , I fear , stern Earl's the ...
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... thou wilt know him , shepherd swain , Thou know'st the sun - rise o'er the sea- But oh ! no lamb in all thy train Was e'er so mild , so mild as he . " " His head is on the wood - moss laid ; I did not wake his slumber deep- Sweet sing ...
... thou wilt know him , shepherd swain , Thou know'st the sun - rise o'er the sea- But oh ! no lamb in all thy train Was e'er so mild , so mild as he . " " His head is on the wood - moss laid ; I did not wake his slumber deep- Sweet sing ...
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... thou their loved hearts deny To act their fair , their proper part ? XVIII . The lord of Lothian's fertile vale , Ill - fated Ellen , claims thy hand ; Thou know'st not that thy Nithisdale Was low laid by his ruffian band . And Moray ...
... thou their loved hearts deny To act their fair , their proper part ? XVIII . The lord of Lothian's fertile vale , Ill - fated Ellen , claims thy hand ; Thou know'st not that thy Nithisdale Was low laid by his ruffian band . And Moray ...
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