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Confusion dwelt in every face , And fear in every heart ; When waves on waves , and gulfs on gulfs , O'ercame the pilot's art . Yet then from all my griefs , O Lord , Thy mercy set me free ; Whilst , in the confidence of prayer ...
Confusion dwelt in every face , And fear in every heart ; When waves on waves , and gulfs on gulfs , O'ercame the pilot's art . Yet then from all my griefs , O Lord , Thy mercy set me free ; Whilst , in the confidence of prayer ...
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In her chaste current oft the goddess laves , And with celestial tears augments the waves . Oft in her glass the musing shepherd spies The headlong mountains and the downward skies , The watery landskip of the pendant woods , And absent ...
In her chaste current oft the goddess laves , And with celestial tears augments the waves . Oft in her glass the musing shepherd spies The headlong mountains and the downward skies , The watery landskip of the pendant woods , And absent ...
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... ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee , and arbiter of warThese are thy toys , and , as the snowy flake , They melt into thy yeast of waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar .
... ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee , and arbiter of warThese are thy toys , and , as the snowy flake , They melt into thy yeast of waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar .
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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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