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... Thou art lovelier to me in thy cold severity Flying me , leaving me without a joy , Without a hope on earth , without thyself ; Thou art lovelier now than if thy yielding soul Had smiled on me a passionate consent . Go ; for I see thy ...
... Thou art lovelier to me in thy cold severity Flying me , leaving me without a joy , Without a hope on earth , without thyself ; Thou art lovelier now than if thy yielding soul Had smiled on me a passionate consent . Go ; for I see thy ...
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... thou art , I bless thee with a human heart : God shield thee to thy latest years ! I neither know thee nor thy peers ; And yet my eyes are fill'd with tears . With earnest feeling I shall pray For thee when I am far away . For never saw ...
... thou art , I bless thee with a human heart : God shield thee to thy latest years ! I neither know thee nor thy peers ; And yet my eyes are fill'd with tears . With earnest feeling I shall pray For thee when I am far away . For never saw ...
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... thou a shepherdess ! But I could frame a wish for thee More like a grave reality : Thou art to me but as a wave Of ... Thy elder brother I would be , Thy father , any thing to thee ! Now thanks to Heaven ! that of its grace Hath led me ...
... thou a shepherdess ! But I could frame a wish for thee More like a grave reality : Thou art to me but as a wave Of ... Thy elder brother I would be , Thy father , any thing to thee ! Now thanks to Heaven ! that of its grace Hath led me ...
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... thou art blooming still ! Whither hath fled the choral band That fill'd the abbey's nave ? Yon dark sepulchral yew - trees stand O'er many a level grave ; " In the belfry's crevices the dove Her young brood nurseth well , Whilst thou ...
... thou art blooming still ! Whither hath fled the choral band That fill'd the abbey's nave ? Yon dark sepulchral yew - trees stand O'er many a level grave ; " In the belfry's crevices the dove Her young brood nurseth well , Whilst thou ...
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... Thou art the flower for me ! DELTA . THOUGHT IN A BALL - ROOM . THE room is like the heaven of eve , When round th ' horizon seems to weave A sea of clouds , whose bosoms heave In floating beauty there . Those fleecy phantoms - how they ...
... Thou art the flower for me ! DELTA . THOUGHT IN A BALL - ROOM . THE room is like the heaven of eve , When round th ' horizon seems to weave A sea of clouds , whose bosoms heave In floating beauty there . Those fleecy phantoms - how they ...
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