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Can I see a falling tear , And not feel my sorrow's share ? Can a father see his child Weep , nor be with sorrow fill'd ? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan , an infant fear ? No , no ! never can it be ! Never , never can it be !
Can I see a falling tear , And not feel my sorrow's share ? Can a father see his child Weep , nor be with sorrow fill'd ? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan , an infant fear ? No , no ! never can it be ! Never , never can it be !
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For Kilmeny had been , she knew not where , And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare ; Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew , Where the rain never fell , and the wind never blew . But it seemed as the harp of the sky had ...
For Kilmeny had been , she knew not where , And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare ; Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew , Where the rain never fell , and the wind never blew . But it seemed as the harp of the sky had ...
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On the Grasshopper and Cricket The poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun , And hide in cooling trees , a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new - mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's ...
On the Grasshopper and Cricket The poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun , And hide in cooling trees , a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new - mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's ...
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Contents
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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