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Her ceaseless flight , though devious , speaks her nature Of subtler essence than the trodden clod ; Active , aerial , towering , unconfined , Unfettered with her gross companion's fall : Even silent night proclaims my soul immortal ...
Her ceaseless flight , though devious , speaks her nature Of subtler essence than the trodden clod ; Active , aerial , towering , unconfined , Unfettered with her gross companion's fall : Even silent night proclaims my soul immortal ...
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His lovely daughter , lovelier in her tears , The fond companion of his helpless years , Silent went next , neglectful of her charms , And left a lover's for a father's arms . With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes , And bless'd ...
His lovely daughter , lovelier in her tears , The fond companion of his helpless years , Silent went next , neglectful of her charms , And left a lover's for a father's arms . With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes , And bless'd ...
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She was an elfin Pinnace , lustily I dipp'd my oars into the silent Lake , And , as I rose upon the stroke , my Boat Went heaving through the water , like a Swan ; When from behind that craggy Steep , till then The bound of the horizon ...
She was an elfin Pinnace , lustily I dipp'd my oars into the silent Lake , And , as I rose upon the stroke , my Boat Went heaving through the water , like a Swan ; When from behind that craggy Steep , till then The bound of the horizon ...
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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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