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Yet that were vain , if dreams infest the grave . I wake , emerging from a sea of dreams Tumultuous ; where my wrecked , desponding thought From wave to wave of fancied misery , At random drove , her helm of reason lost ; Though now ...
Yet that were vain , if dreams infest the grave . I wake , emerging from a sea of dreams Tumultuous ; where my wrecked , desponding thought From wave to wave of fancied misery , At random drove , her helm of reason lost ; Though now ...
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Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did his old companions tread , By midnight lamps , the mansions of the dead , Through breathing statues , then unheeded things , Through ...
Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did his old companions tread , By midnight lamps , the mansions of the dead , Through breathing statues , then unheeded things , Through ...
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THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 1785–1866 The Grave of Love I DUG , beneath the cypress shade , What well might seem an elfin's grave ; And every pledge in earth I laid . That erst thy false affection gave . I pressed them down the sod beneath ...
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 1785–1866 The Grave of Love I DUG , beneath the cypress shade , What well might seem an elfin's grave ; And every pledge in earth I laid . That erst thy false affection gave . I pressed them down the sod beneath ...
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CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to Keats Volume 2 of The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 511 pages |
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