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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven Is ...
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven Is ...
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Yet nor the lays of birds , nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue , Could make me any summer's story tell , Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did ...
Yet nor the lays of birds , nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue , Could make me any summer's story tell , Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did ...
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Virtue Sweet day , so cool , so calm , so bright , The bridal of the earth and sky , The dew shall weep thy fall to - night ; For thou must die . Sweet rose , whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye , Thy root is ever ...
Virtue Sweet day , so cool , so calm , so bright , The bridal of the earth and sky , The dew shall weep thy fall to - night ; For thou must die . Sweet rose , whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye , Thy root is ever ...
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FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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