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210 Swell's with our late successes on the foe , Which France and Holland wanted power to cross , We urge an unseen fate to lay us low , And feed their envious eyes with English loss . 211 Each element his dread command obeys ...
210 Swell's with our late successes on the foe , Which France and Holland wanted power to cross , We urge an unseen fate to lay us low , And feed their envious eyes with English loss . 211 Each element his dread command obeys ...
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Then too , severely taught by cruel Fate , To share in all the perils I relate , Then might I , with unrivall'd strains deplore Th ' impervious horrors of a leeward shore . As o'er the surge the stooping main - mast hung , Still on the ...
Then too , severely taught by cruel Fate , To share in all the perils I relate , Then might I , with unrivall'd strains deplore Th ' impervious horrors of a leeward shore . As o'er the surge the stooping main - mast hung , Still on the ...
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... Fire to thy eye and vigour to thy arm ; Then from our lofty hopes and longing eyes , Fate and thy virtues call'd thee to the skies ; Yet still we wonder at thy tow'ring fame , And , losing thee , still dwell upon thy name .
... Fire to thy eye and vigour to thy arm ; Then from our lofty hopes and longing eyes , Fate and thy virtues call'd thee to the skies ; Yet still we wonder at thy tow'ring fame , And , losing thee , still dwell upon thy name .
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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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