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I am too bold , ' tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven , Having some business , do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return . What if her eyes were there , they in her head ?
I am too bold , ' tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven , Having some business , do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return . What if her eyes were there , they in her head ?
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Instance , O instance ! strong as Pluto's gates ; Cressid is mine , tied with the bonds of heaven : Instance , O instance ! strong as heaven itself ; The bonds of heaven are slipp'd , dissolv'd , and loos'd ; And with another knot ...
Instance , O instance ! strong as Pluto's gates ; Cressid is mine , tied with the bonds of heaven : Instance , O instance ! strong as heaven itself ; The bonds of heaven are slipp'd , dissolv'd , and loos'd ; And with another knot ...
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Saint John Baptist The last and greatest herald of heaven's King , Girt with rough skins , hies to the deserts wild , Among that savage brood the woods forth bring , Which he than man more harmless found and mild : His food was locusts ...
Saint John Baptist The last and greatest herald of heaven's King , Girt with rough skins , hies to the deserts wild , Among that savage brood the woods forth bring , Which he than man more harmless found and mild : His food was locusts ...
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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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