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Page 413
Sound the trumpet , beat the drum ; Through all the world around , Sound a reveille , sound , sound , The Warrior God is come . Cho . of all . Sound the trumpet , & c . Momus . Thy sword within the scabbard keep , And let mankind agree ...
Sound the trumpet , beat the drum ; Through all the world around , Sound a reveille , sound , sound , The Warrior God is come . Cho . of all . Sound the trumpet , & c . Momus . Thy sword within the scabbard keep , And let mankind agree ...
Page 481
Tis not enough no harshness gives offence , The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore ...
Tis not enough no harshness gives offence , The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud billows lash the sounding shore ...
Page 531
Methinks Till now I never heard a sound so dreary . Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rook'd in the spire , screams loud ! The gloomy aisles , Black - plaister'd , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And ...
Methinks Till now I never heard a sound so dreary . Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird , Rook'd in the spire , screams loud ! The gloomy aisles , Black - plaister'd , and hung round with shreds of ' scutcheons And ...
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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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