The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... breast with desire ; Each gentle affection was shown In the soft sighing songs of his lyre . Like the caroling thrush on the spray In music soft warbling and wild , To love was devoted each lay , In accents pathetic and mild . C To the ...
... breast with desire ; Each gentle affection was shown In the soft sighing songs of his lyre . Like the caroling thrush on the spray In music soft warbling and wild , To love was devoted each lay , In accents pathetic and mild . C To the ...
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... breast , Her wonted seat regains . Yes - When yon lucid orb is dark , And darting from on high , My soul , a more celestial spark , Shall keep her native sky . Fann'd by the light , the lenient breeze , My limbs refreshment find ; And ...
... breast , Her wonted seat regains . Yes - When yon lucid orb is dark , And darting from on high , My soul , a more celestial spark , Shall keep her native sky . Fann'd by the light , the lenient breeze , My limbs refreshment find ; And ...
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... the waters cool . Shiver'd by a thunderstroke , From the mountain's misty ridge , O'er the brook a ruin'd oak , Near the farmhouse , forms a bridge . beam On her breast the sunny Glitters in meridian pride 24 CUNNINGHAM . A Landscape.
... the waters cool . Shiver'd by a thunderstroke , From the mountain's misty ridge , O'er the brook a ruin'd oak , Near the farmhouse , forms a bridge . beam On her breast the sunny Glitters in meridian pride 24 CUNNINGHAM . A Landscape.
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Including Translations ... British poets. beam On her breast the sunny Glitters in meridian pride ; Yonder as the virgin stream Hastens to the restless ... breast . Where the mantling willows nod , From the green bank's A LANDSCAPE . 25 25.
Including Translations ... British poets. beam On her breast the sunny Glitters in meridian pride ; Yonder as the virgin stream Hastens to the restless ... breast . Where the mantling willows nod , From the green bank's A LANDSCAPE . 25 25.
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... breast . Religion , lodged high on her pious pile , Laments the fading state of crowns below ; Whilst Melancholy fills the vaulted aisle With the slow music of a nation's woe . The dreary paths of unrelenting fate [ try ? Must monarchs ...
... breast . Religion , lodged high on her pious pile , Laments the fading state of crowns below ; Whilst Melancholy fills the vaulted aisle With the slow music of a nation's woe . The dreary paths of unrelenting fate [ try ? Must monarchs ...
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