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Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies : Death , in guerdon of her wrongs , Gives her fame which never dies . So the life that died with shame Lives in death with glorious fame . Hang thou there upon the tomb ...
Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies : Death , in guerdon of her wrongs , Gives her fame which never dies . So the life that died with shame Lives in death with glorious fame . Hang thou there upon the tomb ...
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IV a a Oh my black Soul ! now thou art summoned By sickness , death's herald , and champion ; Thou art like a pilgrim , which abroad hath done Treason , and durst not turn to whence he is fled , Or like a thief , which till death's doom ...
IV a a Oh my black Soul ! now thou art summoned By sickness , death's herald , and champion ; Thou art like a pilgrim , which abroad hath done Treason , and durst not turn to whence he is fled , Or like a thief , which till death's doom ...
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IX If poisonous minerals , and if that tree , Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us , If lecherous goats , if serpents envious Cannot be damn'd ; alas ! why should I be ? Why should intent or reason , born in me , Make sins ...
IX If poisonous minerals , and if that tree , Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us , If lecherous goats , if serpents envious Cannot be damn'd ; alas ! why should I be ? Why should intent or reason , born in me , Make sins ...
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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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