The Poetical Works: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorM. & W. Ward, 1811 - 72 pages |
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... sweets salute the northern sky With vernal leaves , that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea - born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance ...
... sweets salute the northern sky With vernal leaves , that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea - born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance ...
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... sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession , taught ev'n toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed , These.
... sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession , taught ev'n toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed , These.
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... Sweet smiling village , loveliest of the lawn , Thy sports are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half ...
... Sweet smiling village , loveliest of the lawn , Thy sports are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half ...
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... Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour , Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power . Here , as I take my solitary rounds , Amidst thy tangling walks , and ruin'd grounds , And many a year elaps'd return to view Where once the ...
... Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour , Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power . Here , as I take my solitary rounds , Amidst thy tangling walks , and ruin'd grounds , And many a year elaps'd return to view Where once the ...
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... sweet confusion sought a shade , And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made . But now the sounds of population fail , No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale , No busy steps the grass - grown foot - way tread , But all the ...
... sweet confusion sought a shade , And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made . But now the sounds of population fail , No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale , No busy steps the grass - grown foot - way tread , But all the ...
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