Poems ...W. Scott, 1885 - 334 pages |
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Page 67
... Kind souls ! to teach their tenantry to prize What they themselves without remorse despise ; Nor hope have they nor fear of aught to come , As well for them had prophecy been dumb ; They could have held the conduct they pursue , Had ...
... Kind souls ! to teach their tenantry to prize What they themselves without remorse despise ; Nor hope have they nor fear of aught to come , As well for them had prophecy been dumb ; They could have held the conduct they pursue , Had ...
Page 260
... kind , Silvanus , wreathed with cypress , skips behind . The Dryads leave their hollow sylvan cells To roam the banks and solitary dells ; Pan riots now ; and from his amorous chafe Ceres and Cybele seem hardly safe , And Faunus , all ...
... kind , Silvanus , wreathed with cypress , skips behind . The Dryads leave their hollow sylvan cells To roam the banks and solitary dells ; Pan riots now ; and from his amorous chafe Ceres and Cybele seem hardly safe , And Faunus , all ...
Page 277
... kind alike the zebra loves ; The same law governs , where the billows roar , And Proteus ' shoals o'erspread the desert shore ; The sparrow , meanest of the feather'd race , His fit companion finds in ev'ry place , With whom he picks ...
... kind alike the zebra loves ; The same law governs , where the billows roar , And Proteus ' shoals o'erspread the desert shore ; The sparrow , meanest of the feather'd race , His fit companion finds in ev'ry place , With whom he picks ...
Contents
On a Plant of VirginsBower | 6 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE | 7 |
To my Cousin | 31 |
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