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The lover rode as hasty lovers ride , And reach'd a common pasture wild and wide ; Small black - legg'd sheep devour with hunger keen The meagre herbage , fleshless , lank , and lean ; Such o'er thy level turf , Newmarket ! stray ...
The lover rode as hasty lovers ride , And reach'd a common pasture wild and wide ; Small black - legg'd sheep devour with hunger keen The meagre herbage , fleshless , lank , and lean ; Such o'er thy level turf , Newmarket ! stray ...
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But wherever her peaceful form appeared , The wild beasts of the hill were cheered ; The wolf played blythly round the field , The lordly bison lowed and kneeled ; The dun deer wooed with manner bland ...
But wherever her peaceful form appeared , The wild beasts of the hill were cheered ; The wolf played blythly round the field , The lordly bison lowed and kneeled ; The dun deer wooed with manner bland ...
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VII She found me roots of relish sweet , And honey wild , and manna dew ; And sure in language strange she said , I love thee true . VIII She took me to her elfin grot , And there she gaz'd and sighed deep , And there I shut her wild ...
VII She found me roots of relish sweet , And honey wild , and manna dew ; And sure in language strange she said , I love thee true . VIII She took me to her elfin grot , And there she gaz'd and sighed deep , And there I shut her wild ...
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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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