Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - English literature |
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... wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost . Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain ( A bitter change ! ) , severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night , E'en in the zenith ...
... wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost . Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain ( A bitter change ! ) , severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night , E'en in the zenith ...
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... wave no furrow from the keel , So dies in human hearts the thought of death : E'en with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave . [ From the Love of Fame . ] Not all on books their criticism ...
... wave no furrow from the keel , So dies in human hearts the thought of death : E'en with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love , we drop it in their grave . [ From the Love of Fame . ] Not all on books their criticism ...
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... wave the wood , and stir the stream , Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn : While the quail clamours for his running mate . Wide o'er the thistly lawn , as swells the breeze , A whitening shower of vegetable down Amusive ...
... wave the wood , and stir the stream , Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn : While the quail clamours for his running mate . Wide o'er the thistly lawn , as swells the breeze , A whitening shower of vegetable down Amusive ...
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... wave to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart , As home he goes beneath the joyous moon . Ye that ... waves , The frequent corse ; while on each other fixed In sad presage , the blank assistants seemed Silent to ask whom ...
... wave to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart , As home he goes beneath the joyous moon . Ye that ... waves , The frequent corse ; while on each other fixed In sad presage , the blank assistants seemed Silent to ask whom ...
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... wave before the half - shut eye : And of gay castles in the clouds that pass , For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights , that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast , And the calm pleasures ...
... wave before the half - shut eye : And of gay castles in the clouds that pass , For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights , that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast , And the calm pleasures ...
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Page 339 - But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer; My head was turned perforce away, And I saw a boat appear.