The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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... Cruel Alexis ! have you no care for my songs ? no pity for me ? You will drive me to death at last . It is the hour when even cattle are seeking the shade and its coolness - the hour when even green lizards are sheltering themselves in ...
... Cruel Alexis ! have you no care for my songs ? no pity for me ? You will drive me to death at last . It is the hour when even cattle are seeking the shade and its coolness - the hour when even green lizards are sheltering themselves in ...
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... cruel a fate , the nymphs were weeping ; hazels and rivers , you heard the nymphs , when his mother , clasping her son's piteous corpse , is crying out on the cruelty of the gods and the stars , as only a mother can . None were there in ...
... cruel a fate , the nymphs were weeping ; hazels and rivers , you heard the nymphs , when his mother , clasping her son's piteous corpse , is crying out on the cruelty of the gods and the stars , as only a mother can . None were there in ...
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... cruel one , taught the mother to embrue her hands in her children's blood ; hard too was thy heart , mother . Was the mother's heart harder , or the boy god's malice more wanton ? Wanton was the boy god's malice ; hard too thy heart ...
... cruel one , taught the mother to embrue her hands in her children's blood ; hard too was thy heart , mother . Was the mother's heart harder , or the boy god's malice more wanton ? Wanton was the boy god's malice ; hard too thy heart ...
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... cruel , cruel eyes on the Alpine snows and the frost - bound Rhine , alone without me at thy side . Oh ! may the frost forbear to harm thee ! may the sharp ice be kept from wounding thy tender feet ! I will be gone , and set the strains ...
... cruel , cruel eyes on the Alpine snows and the frost - bound Rhine , alone without me at thy side . Oh ! may the frost forbear to harm thee ! may the sharp ice be kept from wounding thy tender feet ! I will be gone , and set the strains ...
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... cruel weight , and the cheap wicker - work furniture of Celeus , bush - harrows of arbute twigs , and Iacchus ' mystic fan - implements these which you will remember to store up long before the day of need , if you are destined to win ...
... cruel weight , and the cheap wicker - work furniture of Celeus , bush - harrows of arbute twigs , and Iacchus ' mystic fan - implements these which you will remember to store up long before the day of need , if you are destined to win ...
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