Poems ...W. Scott, 1885 - 334 pages |
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Page 86
... land I shall visit no more . My friends , do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh , tell me I yet have a friend , Though a friend I am never to see . How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its ...
... land I shall visit no more . My friends , do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh , tell me I yet have a friend , Though a friend I am never to see . How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its ...
Page 152
... land ; So I with animated hopes behold , And many an aching wish , your beamy fires , That show like beacons in the blue abyss , Ordain'd to guide th ' embodied spirit home From toilsome life , to never - ending rest . Love kindles as I ...
... land ; So I with animated hopes behold , And many an aching wish , your beamy fires , That show like beacons in the blue abyss , Ordain'd to guide th ' embodied spirit home From toilsome life , to never - ending rest . Love kindles as I ...
Page 163
... land , once lean Or fertile only in its own disgrace , Exults to see its thistly curse repeal'd . The various seasons woven into one , And that one season an eternal spring , The garden fears no blight , and needs no fence , For there ...
... land , once lean Or fertile only in its own disgrace , Exults to see its thistly curse repeal'd . The various seasons woven into one , And that one season an eternal spring , The garden fears no blight , and needs no fence , For there ...
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On a Plant of VirginsBower | 6 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE | 7 |
To my Cousin | 31 |
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