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“ How could you say my face was fair , And yet that face forsake ? How could you win my virgin heart , Yet leave that heart to break ? ' Why did you say , my lip was sweet , And made the scarlet pale ?
“ How could you say my face was fair , And yet that face forsake ? How could you win my virgin heart , Yet leave that heart to break ? ' Why did you say , my lip was sweet , And made the scarlet pale ?
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My Prayer hath Power with GOD ; the Grace Unspeakable I now receive , Thro ' Faith I see Thee Face to Face , I see Thee Face to Face , and live : In vain I have not wept , and strove , Thy Nature , and thy Name is LOVE .
My Prayer hath Power with GOD ; the Grace Unspeakable I now receive , Thro ' Faith I see Thee Face to Face , I see Thee Face to Face , and live : In vain I have not wept , and strove , Thy Nature , and thy Name is LOVE .
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... Some twelve years old , demure , affected , sly , Prepared the force of early powers to try ; Sudden a look of languor he descries , And well - feign'd apprehension in her eyes ; Train'd but yet savage , in her speaking face ...
... Some twelve years old , demure , affected , sly , Prepared the force of early powers to try ; Sudden a look of languor he descries , And well - feign'd apprehension in her eyes ; Train'd but yet savage , in her speaking face ...
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Contents
CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to Keats Volume 2 of The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 511 pages |
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