The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-century English VerseJohn Hayward Anthology of some six hundred poems and excerpts by eighty-five poets. |
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... green wood And through the dark The white sun twinkling like the dawn Out of a speckled cloud . Sweet views which in our world above Can never well be seen , Were imaged by the water's love Of that fair forest green . And all was ...
... green wood And through the dark The white sun twinkling like the dawn Out of a speckled cloud . Sweet views which in our world above Can never well be seen , Were imaged by the water's love Of that fair forest green . And all was ...
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... green : No wanton bird chirrups from tree to tree , Not a disturber of the woods but me ! Scarce in a summer doth a wild bee come To wake my sylvan echo with his hum : But for my weeping lullaby I have The everlasting cadence of the ...
... green : No wanton bird chirrups from tree to tree , Not a disturber of the woods but me ! Scarce in a summer doth a wild bee come To wake my sylvan echo with his hum : But for my weeping lullaby I have The everlasting cadence of the ...
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... Green Dryad's Plea ] THEN next a merry Woodsman , clad in green , Stept vanward from his mates , that idly stood Each at his proper ease , as they had been Nursed in the liberty of old Sherwood , And wore the livery of Robin Hood , Who ...
... Green Dryad's Plea ] THEN next a merry Woodsman , clad in green , Stept vanward from his mates , that idly stood Each at his proper ease , as they had been Nursed in the liberty of old Sherwood , And wore the livery of Robin Hood , Who ...
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GEORGE CRABBE 17541822 | 1 |
The Book of Thel 1789 | 32 |
EMILY JANE BRONTË 181948 | 48 |
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