The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1864 |
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... tree rose to spot the wilderness ; The dark - blue sky closed round , And rested like a dome Upon the circling waste ... Trees of such ancient majesty Towered not on Yemen's happy hills , Nor crowned the lofty brow of Lebanon ; Fabric so ...
... tree rose to spot the wilderness ; The dark - blue sky closed round , And rested like a dome Upon the circling waste ... Trees of such ancient majesty Towered not on Yemen's happy hills , Nor crowned the lofty brow of Lebanon ; Fabric so ...
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... tree and barren of all fruit , With darkness feeds its boughs of raven grain . Such were the treasures lavished in yon ... trees that bend with luscious fruit , Or wave with feathery boughs , Or point their spiring heads to heaven , - Or ...
... tree and barren of all fruit , With darkness feeds its boughs of raven grain . Such were the treasures lavished in yon ... trees that bend with luscious fruit , Or wave with feathery boughs , Or point their spiring heads to heaven , - Or ...
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... trees and flowers remain , By Nature's care perpetuate and self - sown . The marble statues long have lost all trace Of heroes and of chiefs ; Huge , shapeless stones they lie , O'ergrown with many a flower . 24 . " The work of pride ...
... trees and flowers remain , By Nature's care perpetuate and self - sown . The marble statues long have lost all trace Of heroes and of chiefs ; Huge , shapeless stones they lie , O'ergrown with many a flower . 24 . " The work of pride ...
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... Trees of vegetable gold , Such as in Eden's groves Yet innocent it grew ; Impious ! he made his boast , though Heaven had hid So deep the baneful ore , That they should branch and bud for him , That 24 SOUTHEY'S POEMS .
... Trees of vegetable gold , Such as in Eden's groves Yet innocent it grew ; Impious ! he made his boast , though Heaven had hid So deep the baneful ore , That they should branch and bud for him , That 24 SOUTHEY'S POEMS .
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... Tree alone , that o'er my head Hangs down its hospitable boughs , And bends its whispering leaves As though to welcome me ... trees renewed ; What countless generations of mankind Have risen and fallen asleep , And I remain the same ! My ...
... Tree alone , that o'er my head Hangs down its hospitable boughs , And bends its whispering leaves As though to welcome me ... trees renewed ; What countless generations of mankind Have risen and fallen asleep , And I remain the same ! My ...
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