The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... green Conceals the azure sky ; Save where a starry space , between , Relieves the darken'd eye . Old Error thus , with shades impure , Throws sacred Truth behind : Yet sometimes , through the deep obscure , She bursts upon the mind ...
... green Conceals the azure sky ; Save where a starry space , between , Relieves the darken'd eye . Old Error thus , with shades impure , Throws sacred Truth behind : Yet sometimes , through the deep obscure , She bursts upon the mind ...
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... green waves run , Sweet to see their swelling sails Whiten'd by the laughing sun ! High upon the daisied hill , Rising from the slope of trees , How the wings of yonder mill Labour in the busy breeze ! — Cheerful as a summer's morn ...
... green waves run , Sweet to see their swelling sails Whiten'd by the laughing sun ! High upon the daisied hill , Rising from the slope of trees , How the wings of yonder mill Labour in the busy breeze ! — Cheerful as a summer's morn ...
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... green , Many an attic building smiles ! Painted gardens - grots - and groves , Intermingling shade and light ! Lengthen'd vistas , green alcoves , Join to give the eye delight . Hamlets - villages , and spires , Scatter'd on the 26 ...
... green , Many an attic building smiles ! Painted gardens - grots - and groves , Intermingling shade and light ! Lengthen'd vistas , green alcoves , Join to give the eye delight . Hamlets - villages , and spires , Scatter'd on the 26 ...
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... green ! Let Gaul's captive lilies , cropp'd close to the As trophies of conquest be tied : [ ground , The virgins all cry , ' There's not one to be found ! Out - bloom'd by his roses - they died . ' Ye foes of Old England , such fate ...
... green ! Let Gaul's captive lilies , cropp'd close to the As trophies of conquest be tied : [ ground , The virgins all cry , ' There's not one to be found ! Out - bloom'd by his roses - they died . ' Ye foes of Old England , such fate ...
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... green vale , yon sheltering hills surround , Go forward , you'll arrive at Wisdom's cell : Would you be taught where Fortune may be found , None can direct your anxious search so well . ' Forward they went o'er many a dreary spot ...
... green vale , yon sheltering hills surround , Go forward , you'll arrive at Wisdom's cell : Would you be taught where Fortune may be found , None can direct your anxious search so well . ' Forward they went o'er many a dreary spot ...
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