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... darkness spets her thickest gloom , And makes one blot of all the air ; Stay thy cloudy ebon chair , Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat , and befriend Us thy vowed priests , till utmost end Of all thy dues be done , and none left out ; Ere ...
... darkness spets her thickest gloom , And makes one blot of all the air ; Stay thy cloudy ebon chair , Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat , and befriend Us thy vowed priests , till utmost end Of all thy dues be done , and none left out ; Ere ...
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... , and why they came not back , Is now the labour of my thoughts ; ' tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness , ere they could return , Had stole them from me ; else , O thievish 16 COMUS .
... , and why they came not back , Is now the labour of my thoughts ; ' tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness , ere they could return , Had stole them from me ; else , O thievish 16 COMUS .
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... darkness do I find . What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory , Of calling shapes , and beckoning shadows dire , And airy tongues , that syllable men's names On sands , and shores , and desert ...
... darkness do I find . What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory , Of calling shapes , and beckoning shadows dire , And airy tongues , that syllable men's names On sands , and shores , and desert ...
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... darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three , Amidst the flowery - kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs , Who , as they sung , would take the prisoned soul And lap it in ...
... darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three , Amidst the flowery - kirtled Naiades Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs , Who , as they sung , would take the prisoned soul And lap it in ...
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... thus ? LADY . Dim darkness , and this leafy labyrinth . COMUS . Could that divide you from near - ushering guides ? LADY . They left me weary on a grassy turf . COMUS . By falsehood , or discourtesy , or why 22 COMUS .
... thus ? LADY . Dim darkness , and this leafy labyrinth . COMUS . Could that divide you from near - ushering guides ? LADY . They left me weary on a grassy turf . COMUS . By falsehood , or discourtesy , or why 22 COMUS .
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amidst Anchises Ascanius beg me sing beget on youthful bower BREAD STREET brute Carpathian wizard's chaste chastity clouted shoon COMUS CORBOULD Corineus Cornwall dead Parthenope's divine philosophy doth drouth drowsy-flighted EARL OF BRIDGEWATER earth cumbered ELDER BROTHER enchanter esteemed Estrildis Faerie Queene fair Ligea's false Fancy can beget fear flocks foul gentle give goddess grace Guendolen halloo hast hath head be crowned Hecat Henry VI herb hidden strength honour Jove knot-grass LADY Listen lord loved mayst Milton mortal Nereus night nymph o'er Paradise Lost ribs of Death Roving the Celtic Sabrina SECOND BROTHER shades shepherd shrewd meddling elf silver lining sister sits the Assyrian sky robes spun soft and solemn-breathing solemn-breathing sound song soul spell SPIRIT stalk with languished stars stream Strive to keep swain sweet taste tell thee thou thought Thrice upon thy thy banks Thyrsis unlocked my lips wand wild winged air darked wood