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Page 490
Some to the sun their insect - wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms , too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew ...
Some to the sun their insect - wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms , too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew ...
Page 492
... While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain : Or alum styptics with contracting power Shrink his thin essence like a rivell'd flower : Or , as Ixion fix'd , the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling wheel , In fumes ...
... While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain : Or alum styptics with contracting power Shrink his thin essence like a rivell'd flower : Or , as Ixion fix'd , the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling wheel , In fumes ...
Page 523
... trod down , and dying view ; While all their spirits are on wing ; And woods , and hills , and valleys ring . ... Or Spleen will surely be too hard ; Which , like those fish by sailors met , Fly highest while their wings are wet .
... trod down , and dying view ; While all their spirits are on wing ; And woods , and hills , and valleys ring . ... Or Spleen will surely be too hard ; Which , like those fish by sailors met , Fly highest while their wings are wet .
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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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