Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 1Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... fire ; Then cometh ere dawn The eastern wind , Frost bitter cold , Ever fire or dart ; Some hard torment They must have , It was wrought for them in punishment , Their world ( life ) was changed : For their sinful course He filled hell ...
... fire ; Then cometh ere dawn The eastern wind , Frost bitter cold , Ever fire or dart ; Some hard torment They must have , It was wrought for them in punishment , Their world ( life ) was changed : For their sinful course He filled hell ...
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... fire the swartest ; To fiends should minister Where of all perils is the greatest To people for a long season . That the foe well knew ; The devil's dark messenger , Who warred with God , Cast him then into a worm's body , And then ...
... fire the swartest ; To fiends should minister Where of all perils is the greatest To people for a long season . That the foe well knew ; The devil's dark messenger , Who warred with God , Cast him then into a worm's body , And then ...
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... fire - red cherubinnes face , For sausefleme he was , with eyen narwe . As hote he was , and likerous as a sparwe , With scalled browes blake , and pilled berd : Of his visage children were sore aferd . Ther n'as quiksilver , litarge ...
... fire - red cherubinnes face , For sausefleme he was , with eyen narwe . As hote he was , and likerous as a sparwe , With scalled browes blake , and pilled berd : Of his visage children were sore aferd . Ther n'as quiksilver , litarge ...
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... fire , So that they brennen forth in great distresse . I speake this of feeling truly , If I be old and vnlusty , Yet I have felt of the sicknesse through May Both hote and cold , and axes every day , How sore ywis there wote no wight ...
... fire , So that they brennen forth in great distresse . I speake this of feeling truly , If I be old and vnlusty , Yet I have felt of the sicknesse through May Both hote and cold , and axes every day , How sore ywis there wote no wight ...
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... fire her bren . " But now I woll you tell a wonder thing , As long as I lay in that swouning , Me thought I wist what the birds ment , And what they said , and what was hir entent , And of hir speech I had good knowing . There heard I ...
... fire her bren . " But now I woll you tell a wonder thing , As long as I lay in that swouning , Me thought I wist what the birds ment , And what they said , and what was hir entent , And of hir speech I had good knowing . There heard I ...
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