The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 33Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1823 - English poetry |
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... Nature spreads his raven wings ; Let me upon some unfrequented green , While sleep sits heavy on the drowsy world , Seek out some solitary peaceful cell , Where darksome woods around their gloomy brows Bow low , and every hill's ...
... Nature spreads his raven wings ; Let me upon some unfrequented green , While sleep sits heavy on the drowsy world , Seek out some solitary peaceful cell , Where darksome woods around their gloomy brows Bow low , and every hill's ...
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... Nature's adamantine gates , And to our minds her secret powers expos'd ; Newton demands the Muse : his sacred hand Shall guide her infant steps ; his sacred hand Shall raise her to the Heliconian height , Where , on its lofty top ...
... Nature's adamantine gates , And to our minds her secret powers expos'd ; Newton demands the Muse : his sacred hand Shall guide her infant steps ; his sacred hand Shall raise her to the Heliconian height , Where , on its lofty top ...
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... nature strung his sinewy frame , The slave , perhaps , of some insatiate dame ; But if exempted from the ' Herculean toil , A fairer field awaits him , rich with spoil ; There shall he shine , with mingling honours bright , His master's ...
... nature strung his sinewy frame , The slave , perhaps , of some insatiate dame ; But if exempted from the ' Herculean toil , A fairer field awaits him , rich with spoil ; There shall he shine , with mingling honours bright , His master's ...
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