Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips, Sampson, 1857 |
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... Two swains , whom love kept wakeful , and the musa , Pour'd o'er the whitening vale their fleecy care , Fresh as the morn , and as the season fair : 39 The dawn now blushing on the mountain's side , Thus PASTORALS,-Spring.
... Two swains , whom love kept wakeful , and the musa , Pour'd o'er the whitening vale their fleecy care , Fresh as the morn , and as the season fair : 39 The dawn now blushing on the mountain's side , Thus PASTORALS,-Spring.
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... o'er its leaves shall move , And on its top descends the mystic dove . Ye heavens ! 2 from high the dewy nectar pour , And in soft silence shed the kindly shower ! The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid , From storm a shelter ...
... o'er its leaves shall move , And on its top descends the mystic dove . Ye heavens ! 2 from high the dewy nectar pour , And in soft silence shed the kindly shower ! The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid , From storm a shelter ...
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... o'er the world her olive wand , extend , 25 30 35 And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend . 20 Swift fly the years , and rise the expected mor ! Oh spring to light , auspicious Babe , be born See , Nature hastes her carliest ...
... o'er the world her olive wand , extend , 25 30 35 And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend . 20 Swift fly the years , and rise the expected mor ! Oh spring to light , auspicious Babe , be born See , Nature hastes her carliest ...
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... o'er , The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend , And the broad falchion in a plough - share end . Then palaces shall rise ; the joyful son3 39 55 60 hall finish what his short - lived sire ...
... o'er , The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend , And the broad falchion in a plough - share end . Then palaces shall rise ; the joyful son3 39 55 60 hall finish what his short - lived sire ...
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... o'er ; The hollow winds through naked temples roar ; Round broken columns clasping ivy twined ; O'er heaps of ruins stalk'd the stately hind ; The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires , And savage howlings fill the sacred quires Awed by ...
... o'er ; The hollow winds through naked temples roar ; Round broken columns clasping ivy twined ; O'er heaps of ruins stalk'd the stately hind ; The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires , And savage howlings fill the sacred quires Awed by ...
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