The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1924 - 505 pages |
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... Fair Thames , flow gently from thy sacred spring , While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing ; Let vernal airs thro ' trembling osiers play , And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay . You , that too wise for pride , too good for pow'r ...
... Fair Thames , flow gently from thy sacred spring , While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing ; Let vernal airs thro ' trembling osiers play , And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay . You , that too wise for pride , too good for pow'r ...
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... fair : The dawn now blushing on the mountain's side , Thus Daphnis spoke , and Strephon thus reply'd . DAPHNIS . Hear how the birds , on ev'ry bloomy spray , With joyous musick wake the dawning day ! Why sit we mute when early linnets ...
... fair : The dawn now blushing on the mountain's side , Thus Daphnis spoke , and Strephon thus reply'd . DAPHNIS . Hear how the birds , on ev'ry bloomy spray , With joyous musick wake the dawning day ! Why sit we mute when early linnets ...
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... fair , The Sun's mild lustre warms the vital air ; If Sylvia smiles , new glories gild the shore , And vanquish'd nature seems to charm no more . STREPHON . 75 In spring the fields , in autumn hills I love , At morn the plains , at noon ...
... fair , The Sun's mild lustre warms the vital air ; If Sylvia smiles , new glories gild the shore , And vanquish'd nature seems to charm no more . STREPHON . 75 In spring the fields , in autumn hills I love , At morn the plains , at noon ...
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... to be so , it was Dr Garth . ' ] 4 The woods shall answer , and their echo ring ] is a line out of Spenser's Epithalamion . P. [ It is the refrain of that poem . ] In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides , Or 2 Summer.
... to be so , it was Dr Garth . ' ] 4 The woods shall answer , and their echo ring ] is a line out of Spenser's Epithalamion . P. [ It is the refrain of that poem . ] In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides , Or 2 Summer.
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Alexander Pope Sir Adolphus William Ward. In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides , Or else where Cam his winding vales divides1 ? As in the crystal spring I view my face , Fresh rising blushes paint the wat'ry glass ; But since ...
Alexander Pope Sir Adolphus William Ward. In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides , Or else where Cam his winding vales divides1 ? As in the crystal spring I view my face , Fresh rising blushes paint the wat'ry glass ; But since ...
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