Fireside Poetry: Being Choice Selections in Chronological Order from the Most Famous Poets, from Chaucer to Tennyson; with Biographical Notices of the Authors ...Amer. News Company - English poetry |
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... beauty , she was beauty's self , Recluse amid the close - embowering woods : As in the hollow breast of Apennine , Beneath the shelter of encircling hills , A myrtle rises , far from human eye , And breathes in balmy fragrance o'er the ...
... beauty , she was beauty's self , Recluse amid the close - embowering woods : As in the hollow breast of Apennine , Beneath the shelter of encircling hills , A myrtle rises , far from human eye , And breathes in balmy fragrance o'er the ...
Page 387
... beauty's dazzled baith my een ; " But nought a beauty he had seen But - Jenny's bawbee . A lawyer neist , wi ' bletherin ' gab , Wha speeches wove like ony wab , In ilk ane's corn aye took a dab , And a ' for a fee : Accounts he had ...
... beauty's dazzled baith my een ; " But nought a beauty he had seen But - Jenny's bawbee . A lawyer neist , wi ' bletherin ' gab , Wha speeches wove like ony wab , In ilk ane's corn aye took a dab , And a ' for a fee : Accounts he had ...
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... beauty and redness ; Its daughters were happy to hail the returning , And drink the delights of July's sweet morning . But , oh ! there were hearts cherished far other feelings , Illumed by the light of prophetic revealings , Who drank ...
... beauty and redness ; Its daughters were happy to hail the returning , And drink the delights of July's sweet morning . But , oh ! there were hearts cherished far other feelings , Illumed by the light of prophetic revealings , Who drank ...
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