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... er hill encompass'd round , A most enchanting wizard did abide , Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found . It ... ne cared even for play . Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep - soothing groves , and quiet lawns between ...
... er hill encompass'd round , A most enchanting wizard did abide , Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found . It ... ne cared even for play . Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep - soothing groves , and quiet lawns between ...
Page 27
... ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph , a Naiad , or a Grace , Of finer form , or lovelier face ! What though the sun , with ardent frown , Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown , - The sportive toil , which , short and light , Had ...
... ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph , a Naiad , or a Grace , Of finer form , or lovelier face ! What though the sun , with ardent frown , Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown , - The sportive toil , which , short and light , Had ...
Page 32
... er have been . Now autumn's pensive voice is heard Amid the yellow bowers , The robin is the regal bird , And thou the Queen of Flowers ! He sings on the laburnum trees , Amid the twilight dim , And Araby ne'er gave the breeze Such ...
... er have been . Now autumn's pensive voice is heard Amid the yellow bowers , The robin is the regal bird , And thou the Queen of Flowers ! He sings on the laburnum trees , Amid the twilight dim , And Araby ne'er gave the breeze Such ...
Page 72
... ne'er , When , in his orbit fair and high , The morning's glowing charioteer Rides proudly up the blushing sky ; But when the waning moon - beam sleeps At moon 72 YOUNG LADY'S To a Sister.
... ne'er , When , in his orbit fair and high , The morning's glowing charioteer Rides proudly up the blushing sky ; But when the waning moon - beam sleeps At moon 72 YOUNG LADY'S To a Sister.
Page 87
... ne'er a madam of them all , Whose silken kirtle sweeps the hall , More varied trick and whim displays , To catch the admiring stranger's gaze . The featest tumbler , stage - bedight , To thee is but a clumsy wight , Who every limb and ...
... ne'er a madam of them all , Whose silken kirtle sweeps the hall , More varied trick and whim displays , To catch the admiring stranger's gaze . The featest tumbler , stage - bedight , To thee is but a clumsy wight , Who every limb and ...
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