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Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace , But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face ; As still was her look , and as still was her e'e , As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea , Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea .
Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace , But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny's face ; As still was her look , and as still was her e'e , As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea , Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea .
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Unnumbered groves below them grew , They came , they passed , and backward flew , Like floods of blossoms gliding on , In moment seen , in moment gone . O , never vales to mortal view Appeared like those o'er which they flew !
Unnumbered groves below them grew , They came , they passed , and backward flew , Like floods of blossoms gliding on , In moment seen , in moment gone . O , never vales to mortal view Appeared like those o'er which they flew !
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And more robust of figure -- then begun To kindle fire , and as the new flames gave Light to the rocks that roof'd them , which the sun Had never seen , the maid , or whatsoe'er She was , appear'd distinct , and tall , and fair .
And more robust of figure -- then begun To kindle fire , and as the new flames gave Light to the rocks that roof'd them , which the sun Had never seen , the maid , or whatsoe'er She was , appear'd distinct , and tall , and fair .
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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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