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( To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease , And see what friends , and read what books I please : Above a patron , though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend .
( To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease , And see what friends , and read what books I please : Above a patron , though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend .
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I wished that thou shouldst live the life they lived , But ' tis a long time to look back , my Son , And see so little gain from threescore years . These fields were burthened when they came to me ; Till I was forty years of age ...
I wished that thou shouldst live the life they lived , But ' tis a long time to look back , my Son , And see so little gain from threescore years . These fields were burthened when they came to me ; Till I was forty years of age ...
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Thus ye live on high , and then On the earth ye live again ; And the souls ye left behind you Teach us , here the way to find you , Where your other souls are joying , Never slumber'd , never cloying . Here , your earth - born souls ...
Thus ye live on high , and then On the earth ye live again ; And the souls ye left behind you Teach us , here the way to find you , Where your other souls are joying , Never slumber'd , never cloying . Here , your earth - born souls ...
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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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