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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... keep your oaths of coronation 154 Cupid and my Campaspe played 404 C. Cursed with unnumber'd groundless fears Custom , the world's great idol , we adore ... 976 677 Ca ' the yowes to the knowes 1582 Cælia is cruel : Sylvia , thou ...
... keep your oaths of coronation 154 Cupid and my Campaspe played 404 C. Cursed with unnumber'd groundless fears Custom , the world's great idol , we adore ... 976 677 Ca ' the yowes to the knowes 1582 Cælia is cruel : Sylvia , thou ...
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... keep all 1 have a son , a little son , a boy just five years old I wha stand here , in this bare scowry coat 1594 699 I will go back to the great sweet mother 1833 I will not have the mad Clytie 1487 1801 I wish I had a cottage snug and ...
... keep all 1 have a son , a little son , a boy just five years old I wha stand here , in this bare scowry coat 1594 699 I will go back to the great sweet mother 1833 I will not have the mad Clytie 1487 1801 I wish I had a cottage snug and ...
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... keep and save Both in hele and also in sickness , And alway right sorry for our distress ! In every manère thus shew they ruth , That in them is all goodness and all truth . Chaucer . About 1380 . 28. THE LAST VERSES OF CHAUCER ...
... keep and save Both in hele and also in sickness , And alway right sorry for our distress ! In every manère thus shew they ruth , That in them is all goodness and all truth . Chaucer . About 1380 . 28. THE LAST VERSES OF CHAUCER ...
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... keep sic ane in life in thy bandoun , Than all the land and good that thou hast reived , But cowardice thee ay fra honour dreived . Thou has thy life rougin in wrangeous deed ; That shall be seen on thee or on thy seed . " The king gart ...
... keep sic ane in life in thy bandoun , Than all the land and good that thou hast reived , But cowardice thee ay fra honour dreived . Thou has thy life rougin in wrangeous deed ; That shall be seen on thee or on thy seed . " The king gart ...
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... thank yon curtain , and yon parpane wall , Of my defence now frae yon cruel beast Almighty God , keep me frae sic a feast ! " Were I into the place that I cam frae From 1400 to 1558. ] [ R. HENRYSONE . DINNER GIVEN BY THE TOWN MOUSE .
... thank yon curtain , and yon parpane wall , Of my defence now frae yon cruel beast Almighty God , keep me frae sic a feast ! " Were I into the place that I cam frae From 1400 to 1558. ] [ R. HENRYSONE . DINNER GIVEN BY THE TOWN MOUSE .
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