The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author |
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... tears ; The winds , and trees , and floods , her death deplore , Daphne our grief , our glory now no more ! But see ! where Daphne wondering mounts on high , Above the clouds , above the starry sky ! Eternal beauties grace the shining ...
... tears ; The winds , and trees , and floods , her death deplore , Daphne our grief , our glory now no more ! But see ! where Daphne wondering mounts on high , Above the clouds , above the starry sky ! Eternal beauties grace the shining ...
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... tear . In adamantine ( h ) chains shall death be bound , And hell's grim tyrant feel th ' eternal wound . As the good shepherd ( 2 ) tends his fleecy care , Seeks freshest pasture , and the purest air ; IMITATIONS . ' O come and receive ...
... tear . In adamantine ( h ) chains shall death be bound , And hell's grim tyrant feel th ' eternal wound . As the good shepherd ( 2 ) tends his fleecy care , Seeks freshest pasture , and the purest air ; IMITATIONS . ' O come and receive ...
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... tears his frustrate labour yields , And , famish'd , dies amidst his ripen'd fields . What wonder then , a beast or subject slain Were equal crimes in a despotic reign ? Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled , But , while the ...
... tears his frustrate labour yields , And , famish'd , dies amidst his ripen'd fields . What wonder then , a beast or subject slain Were equal crimes in a despotic reign ? Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled , But , while the ...
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... tears she lay , In a soft silver stream dissolv'd away . The silver stream her virgin coldness keeps , For ever murmurs , and for ever weeps ; Still bears the name the helpless virgin bore , And bathes the forest where she rang'd before ...
... tears she lay , In a soft silver stream dissolv'd away . The silver stream her virgin coldness keeps , For ever murmurs , and for ever weeps ; Still bears the name the helpless virgin bore , And bathes the forest where she rang'd before ...
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... tears the river shed , When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire , And on his willows hung each muse's lyre . Since fate relentless stopp'd their heavenly voice , No more the forests ring , or ...
... tears the river shed , When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire , And on his willows hung each muse's lyre . Since fate relentless stopp'd their heavenly voice , No more the forests ring , or ...
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