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Page 36
What dost thou mean , ungrateful Wretch thou vain , Thou mortal thing , thus idly
to complain , And sigh and fob , that thou shalt be no more ? For if thy Life were
pleasant hcretofore , If all the bounteous Blessings I cou'd give Thou hast enjoy'd
...
What dost thou mean , ungrateful Wretch thou vain , Thou mortal thing , thus idly
to complain , And sigh and fob , that thou shalt be no more ? For if thy Life were
pleasant hcretofore , If all the bounteous Blessings I cou'd give Thou hast enjoy'd
...
Page 59
This was their Song : Why happy Bridegroom , why E're yet the Stars are kindld in
the Sky , E're twilight shades , or Ev'ning dews are shed , Why dost thou steal so
soon away to Bed ? Has Somnus brush'd thy Eye - lids with his Rod , Or do thy ...
This was their Song : Why happy Bridegroom , why E're yet the Stars are kindld in
the Sky , E're twilight shades , or Ev'ning dews are shed , Why dost thou steal so
soon away to Bed ? Has Somnus brush'd thy Eye - lids with his Rod , Or do thy ...
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W Hat ail'st thou , oh thou trembling Thing , To Pant and Languish in my Breast ,
Like Birds that fain wou'd try the callow Wing , And leave the downy Neft ? Why
haft thou fill'd thy self with Thought , Strange , new , fantastick as the Air ? Why to
...
W Hat ail'st thou , oh thou trembling Thing , To Pant and Languish in my Breast ,
Like Birds that fain wou'd try the callow Wing , And leave the downy Neft ? Why
haft thou fill'd thy self with Thought , Strange , new , fantastick as the Air ? Why to
...
Page 191
I felt thy Blood fly upward to my Face , While thou unguarded lay , Yielding to
every Word , to every Grace , Fond to be made a Prey . I left thee watching in my
Eyes , And list'ning in my Ear , Discovering Weakness in thy Sighs , Uneasie with
thy ...
I felt thy Blood fly upward to my Face , While thou unguarded lay , Yielding to
every Word , to every Grace , Fond to be made a Prey . I left thee watching in my
Eyes , And list'ning in my Ear , Discovering Weakness in thy Sighs , Uneasie with
thy ...
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That all thou fanciest now were true ?. If thou should'It find by Day those Charms ,
Which thus observ'd threaten undoing Harms ; If thou should'ft find that awful
Mien Not the effects of first Address , Nor of my Conversation disesteem , But
noble ...
That all thou fanciest now were true ?. If thou should'It find by Day those Charms ,
Which thus observ'd threaten undoing Harms ; If thou should'ft find that awful
Mien Not the effects of first Address , Nor of my Conversation disesteem , But
noble ...
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| Title | Sylvae, Or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies |
| Author | John Dryden |
| Publisher | Jacob Tonson, 1702 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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