The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... 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 cheerful he usher'd his smiles , To the Encomium.
... 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 cheerful he usher'd his smiles , To the Encomium.
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... soft - the golden glow subsides ! Her chariot mounts on high ! And now in silver'd pomp she rides Pale regent of the sky ! Where Time upon the wither'd tree Hath carved the moral chair , I sit , from busy passions free , And breathe the ...
... soft - the golden glow subsides ! Her chariot mounts on high ! And now in silver'd pomp she rides Pale regent of the sky ! Where Time upon the wither'd tree Hath carved the moral chair , I sit , from busy passions free , And breathe the ...
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... soft serenity of night Ungentle clouds deform ! The silver host , that shone so bright , Is hid behind a storm ! The angry elements engage ! An oak ( an ivied bower ! ) Repels the rough wind's noisy rage , And shields me from the shower ...
... soft serenity of night Ungentle clouds deform ! The silver host , that shone so bright , Is hid behind a storm ! The angry elements engage ! An oak ( an ivied bower ! ) Repels the rough wind's noisy rage , And shields me from the shower ...
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... d stones , And monumental trophies raised on high ! For Time confounds them with the crumbling bones That , mix'd in hasty graves , unnoticed lie . Rests not beneath the turf the peasant's head , Soft ELEGY ON A PILE OF RUINS . 31.
... d stones , And monumental trophies raised on high ! For Time confounds them with the crumbling bones That , mix'd in hasty graves , unnoticed lie . Rests not beneath the turf the peasant's head , Soft ELEGY ON A PILE OF RUINS . 31.
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... Soft as the lord's beneath the labour'd tomb ? Or sleeps one colder , in his close clay bed , Than the ' other in the wide vault's dreary womb ? Hither let Luxury lead her loose - robed train ; Here flutter Pride , on purple - painted ...
... Soft as the lord's beneath the labour'd tomb ? Or sleeps one colder , in his close clay bed , Than the ' other in the wide vault's dreary womb ? Hither let Luxury lead her loose - robed train ; Here flutter Pride , on purple - painted ...
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