The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to BayleySamuel Carter Hall H. G. Bohn, 1846 - English poetry |
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... Friends . 83 Cathedral Hymn 135 Hannah ib . The Song of Night 137 The Hebrew Mother 138 The Captive Knight 141 WHITE . The Trumpet . ib . Description of a Summer's Eve . 87 The Return to Poetry . 142 The Savoyard's Return 89 The ...
... Friends . 83 Cathedral Hymn 135 Hannah ib . The Song of Night 137 The Hebrew Mother 138 The Captive Knight 141 WHITE . The Trumpet . ib . Description of a Summer's Eve . 87 The Return to Poetry . 142 The Savoyard's Return 89 The ...
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... friend . These moralists could act and comprehend : They knew how genuine glory was put on ; Taught us how rightfully a nation shone In splendour ; what strength was , that would not bend But in magnanimous meekness . France , ' tis ...
... friend . These moralists could act and comprehend : They knew how genuine glory was put on ; Taught us how rightfully a nation shone In splendour ; what strength was , that would not bend But in magnanimous meekness . France , ' tis ...
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... friend , The first to welcome , foremost to defend , Whose honest heart is still his master's own , Who labours , fights , lives , breathes for him alone , Unhonour'd falls , unnoticed all his worth , Denied in heaven the soul he held ...
... friend , The first to welcome , foremost to defend , Whose honest heart is still his master's own , Who labours , fights , lives , breathes for him alone , Unhonour'd falls , unnoticed all his worth , Denied in heaven the soul he held ...
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... friendship all a cheat , Thy smiles hypocrisy , thy words deceit ! By nature vile , ennobled but by name , Each ... friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one , —and here he lies . THE DREAM . OUR life is twofold : sleep ...
... friendship all a cheat , Thy smiles hypocrisy , thy words deceit ! By nature vile , ennobled but by name , Each ... friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one , —and here he lies . THE DREAM . OUR life is twofold : sleep ...
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... friendship had bestow'd on him ; Herself the solitary scion left Of a time - honour'd race . It was a name Which pleased him , and yet pleased him not , —and why ? Time taught him a deep answer - when she loved D Another ! even now she ...
... friendship had bestow'd on him ; Herself the solitary scion left Of a time - honour'd race . It was a name Which pleased him , and yet pleased him not , —and why ? Time taught him a deep answer - when she loved D Another ! even now she ...
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