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Page 7
... Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig , and mute - imploring eye The falling verdure . Hush'd in short suspense , The plumy people streak their wings with oil , To throw the lucid moisture trickling off " : And wait the approaching sign ...
... Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig , and mute - imploring eye The falling verdure . Hush'd in short suspense , The plumy people streak their wings with oil , To throw the lucid moisture trickling off " : And wait the approaching sign ...
Page 10
... herds and flocks , commixing , play'd secure . This when , emergent from the gloomy wood , The glaring lion saw , his horrid heart Was meeken'd , and he join'd his sullen joy . For music held the whole in perfect peace : Soft sigh'd the ...
... herds and flocks , commixing , play'd secure . This when , emergent from the gloomy wood , The glaring lion saw , his horrid heart Was meeken'd , and he join'd his sullen joy . For music held the whole in perfect peace : Soft sigh'd the ...
Page 13
... herd , And dip his tongue in gore ? the beast of prey , Blood - stain'd , deserves to bleed ; but you , ye flocks , What have you done ; ye peaceful people , what , To merit death ? you , who have given us milk In luscious streams , and ...
... herd , And dip his tongue in gore ? the beast of prey , Blood - stain'd , deserves to bleed ; but you , ye flocks , What have you done ; ye peaceful people , what , To merit death ? you , who have given us milk In luscious streams , and ...
Page 24
... herds and flocks , a thousand tugging bills Pluck hair and wool ; and oft , when unobserved , ' Steal from the barn a straw : till soft and warm , Clean and complete , their habitation grows . As thus the patient dam assiduous sits ...
... herds and flocks , a thousand tugging bills Pluck hair and wool ; and oft , when unobserved , ' Steal from the barn a straw : till soft and warm , Clean and complete , their habitation grows . As thus the patient dam assiduous sits ...
Page 33
... herds , the flocks , the birds , The hollow - whispering breeze , the plaint of rills , That , purling down amid the twisted roots Which creep around , their dewy murmurs shake On the sooth'd ear . From these abstracted oft , You wander ...
... herds , the flocks , the birds , The hollow - whispering breeze , the plaint of rills , That , purling down amid the twisted roots Which creep around , their dewy murmurs shake On the sooth'd ear . From these abstracted oft , You wander ...
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amid Apennines art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath blast blaze bliss blooming bosom boundless breast breath breeze bright CHARLES ROLLS charm clouds dark deep delight deluge descending diffused dreadful E'en earth ether exalted fair fair brow faithless fancy fierce flame flocks flood forest gale gentle gloom glowing grace grove happy heart heaven herds High raised hills JOHN SHARPE light Lycurgus matchless maze mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night o'er passions peace plain poison'd pomp pride rage rapture RICHARD WESTALL rills rise roar robe rocks roll round rural scene season shade shake shining shoot silvan smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd swain sweet swell swift tempest tender thee thou thought thunder toil turbid Typhon vale vex'd virtue walk wander waste wave wide wild winds wing Winter wintry woods wrapp'd youth