The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to BayleySamuel Carter Hall H. G. Bohn, 1846 - English poetry |
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... sighs were not for him ! to her he was Even as a brother , but no more : ' twas much , For brotherless she was , save in the name Her infant friendship had bestow'd on him ; Herself the solitary scion left Of a time - honour'd race . It ...
... sighs were not for him ! to her he was Even as a brother , but no more : ' twas much , For brotherless she was , save in the name Her infant friendship had bestow'd on him ; Herself the solitary scion left Of a time - honour'd race . It ...
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... sigh : Oh ! more than tears of blood can tell , When wrung from guilt's expiring eye , Are in that word - Farewell ! Farewell ! These lips are mute , these eyes are dry ; But in my breast , and in my brain , Awake the pangs that pass ...
... sigh : Oh ! more than tears of blood can tell , When wrung from guilt's expiring eye , Are in that word - Farewell ! Farewell ! These lips are mute , these eyes are dry ; But in my breast , and in my brain , Awake the pangs that pass ...
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... sigh , The days that are no more . To school the little exile goes , Torn from his mother's arms , - What then shall soothe his earliest woes , When novelty hath lost its charms ? Condemn'd to suffer through the day Restraints which no ...
... sigh , The days that are no more . To school the little exile goes , Torn from his mother's arms , - What then shall soothe his earliest woes , When novelty hath lost its charms ? Condemn'd to suffer through the day Restraints which no ...
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... sigh The happy dreams of Youth . So reaches he the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage , With feeble step and slow ; New ills that latter stage await , And old Experience learns too late That all is vanity below . Life's vain ...
... sigh The happy dreams of Youth . So reaches he the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage , With feeble step and slow ; New ills that latter stage await , And old Experience learns too late That all is vanity below . Life's vain ...
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... sigh , " " Tis some poor fellow's skull , " said he , " Who fell in the great victory . 66 " I find them in the garden , " For there's many here about ; " And often when I go to plough , " The ploughshare turns them out ! " For many ...
... sigh , " " Tis some poor fellow's skull , " said he , " Who fell in the great victory . 66 " I find them in the garden , " For there's many here about ; " And often when I go to plough , " The ploughshare turns them out ! " For many ...
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