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a Of sky - aspiring and ambitious thoughts , With rival - hating envy , set on you To wake our peace , which in our country's cradle Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep ; Which so rous'd up with boist'rous untun'd drums ...
a Of sky - aspiring and ambitious thoughts , With rival - hating envy , set on you To wake our peace , which in our country's cradle Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep ; Which so rous'd up with boist'rous untun'd drums ...
Page 120
... strangles our dear vows Even in the birth of our own labouring breath . We two , that with so many thousand sighs Did buy each other , must poorly sell ourselves With the rude brevity and discharge of one , Injurious time now with a ...
... strangles our dear vows Even in the birth of our own labouring breath . We two , that with so many thousand sighs Did buy each other , must poorly sell ourselves With the rude brevity and discharge of one , Injurious time now with a ...
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Only if loves fire with the breath Of life be kindled , I doubt , With our last air ' twill be breath'd out , And quenched with the cold of death . That if affection be a line , Which is clos'd up in our last hour ; Oh how ' twould ...
Only if loves fire with the breath Of life be kindled , I doubt , With our last air ' twill be breath'd out , And quenched with the cold of death . That if affection be a line , Which is clos'd up in our last hour ; Oh how ' twould ...
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Contents
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
GEORGE CHAPMAN 15601634 | 54 |
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| Title | The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Spencer to Crabbe Oxford Paperbacks Volume 1 of The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, Oxford library of English poetry |
| Author | Oxford library of English poetry |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192827987, 9780192827982 |
| Length | 659 pages |
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