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" Wit's sour delights, With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scattered lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. "
Watership Down: A Novel - Page 7
by Richard Adams - 2009 - 496 pages
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe,...Like a thick midnight-fog, moved there so slow He did nor stay nor go : Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl Upon his soul ; And clouds of crying...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe,...Like a thick midnight-fog, moved there so slow He did nor stay nor go: Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl Upon his soul ; And clouds of crying...
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The book of English poetry, with critical and biogr. sketches of the poets

English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...scattered lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woo, Like a thick midnight-fog, moved there so slow He did not stay nor go : Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl Upon his soul ; And clouds of crying witnesses without...
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The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of Henry Vaughan, Silurist: For the ...

Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 418 pages
...snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scattor'd lay, while he his eys did pour Upon a flowr. 2. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, lie did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts— like sad ecclipses — scowl...
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The English Poets, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, He did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts — like sad eclipses — scowl...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, He did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts—like sad eclipses—scowl Upon...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 2

Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, He did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts — like sad eclipses — scowl...
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The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - Hymns, English - 1889 - 394 pages
...snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome Statesman * hung with weights and woe,...midnight-fog, moved there so slow, He did not stay, nor go : Condemning thoughts— like sad eclipses — scowl Upon his soul, And clouds of crying •witnesses...
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The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - Christian poetry, English - 1889 - 394 pages
...snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome Statesman ' hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, moved there so slow, Me did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts — like sad eclipses — scowl Upon his soul, And clouds...
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Silex Scintillans, Etc: Sacred Poems and Pious Ejaculations

Henry Vaughan - Religious poetry - 1891 - 328 pages
...of pleasure, Yet his dear Treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flowr. 2. The darksome Statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, He did nor stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts (like sad Ecclipses) scowl Upon...
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