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... stars , with stones most precious And in the midst thereof one precious stone , Of wondrous worth , and eke of wondrous might , Shaped like a ladies head , exceeding shone , Like Hesperus , amongst the lesser lights , And strove for to ...
... stars , with stones most precious And in the midst thereof one precious stone , Of wondrous worth , and eke of wondrous might , Shaped like a ladies head , exceeding shone , Like Hesperus , amongst the lesser lights , And strove for to ...
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... stars Hide their diminished heads ; to thee I call , But with no friendly voice , and add thy name O Sun , to tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere ...
... stars Hide their diminished heads ; to thee I call , But with no friendly voice , and add thy name O Sun , to tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere ...
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... star that Heaven doth shew , And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To something like prophetic strain . These pleasures , Melancholy , give , And I with thee will choose to live . LYCIDAS . Yet once more , O ...
... star that Heaven doth shew , And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To something like prophetic strain . These pleasures , Melancholy , give , And I with thee will choose to live . LYCIDAS . Yet once more , O ...
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... eyelids of the morn , We drove a - field , and both together heard What time the gray fly winds her sultry horn , Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night , 1 Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward 78 MILTON.
... eyelids of the morn , We drove a - field , and both together heard What time the gray fly winds her sultry horn , Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night , 1 Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward 78 MILTON.
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George Croly. Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his west'ring wheel . Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute , Tempered to the oaten flute ; Rough Satyrs danced , and Fauns with cloven ...
George Croly. Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his west'ring wheel . Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute , Tempered to the oaten flute ; Rough Satyrs danced , and Fauns with cloven ...
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