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... ROSE . FROM MILTON'S COMUS . 2 14 16 20 MILTON'S PARADISE LOST , Book VII . 24 SONG , BY MOORE 28 FROM AKENSIDE 32 SONG 34 SONG , BY MOORE . 38 FROM ROMEO AND JULIET 40 SONG , BY MOORE 44 • FROM HENRY VIII . 46 PSALM CIV . 48 FROM HENRY ...
... ROSE . FROM MILTON'S COMUS . 2 14 16 20 MILTON'S PARADISE LOST , Book VII . 24 SONG , BY MOORE 28 FROM AKENSIDE 32 SONG 34 SONG , BY MOORE . 38 FROM ROMEO AND JULIET 40 SONG , BY MOORE 44 • FROM HENRY VIII . 46 PSALM CIV . 48 FROM HENRY ...
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... rose , and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet , But all , except their sun , is set . The Scian and the Teian muse , The hero's harp , the lover's lute , Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is ...
... rose , and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet , But all , except their sun , is set . The Scian and the Teian muse , The hero's harp , the lover's lute , Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is ...
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... ἐμοῦ τ ' ἄπο καὶ μακαριτών Νόσφιν ἀποῤῥιφθεὶς , ὑπὸ τάρταρον εἰσιν ἄπειρον Εἰς βάθεα σκοτόεντα , καὶ αὐτόθι δῶμα κιχήσει Μόρσιμον · οὐδ ̓ ἐκ τῶνδε λύσις πέλετ ̓ οὐδὲ τελευτή . THE ROSE . Here is verdure and bloom on the 15.
... ἐμοῦ τ ' ἄπο καὶ μακαριτών Νόσφιν ἀποῤῥιφθεὶς , ὑπὸ τάρταρον εἰσιν ἄπειρον Εἰς βάθεα σκοτόεντα , καὶ αὐτόθι δῶμα κιχήσει Μόρσιμον · οὐδ ̓ ἐκ τῶνδε λύσις πέλετ ̓ οὐδὲ τελευτή . THE ROSE . Here is verdure and bloom on the 15.
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... Rose . The lily with grace doth her petals unfold , The tulip with rich scarlet glows , The daffodil wears a mantle of gold , But all these must yield to the Rose . THE SAME TRANSLATED . Rus mihi pandit opes ; viret 16 THE ROSE.
... Rose . The lily with grace doth her petals unfold , The tulip with rich scarlet glows , The daffodil wears a mantle of gold , But all these must yield to the Rose . THE SAME TRANSLATED . Rus mihi pandit opes ; viret 16 THE ROSE.
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... Rose . The summer is short , and the winter must come , With her hail , and her storm , and her snows , And things that are fairest in our pleasant home Must wither alike with the Rose : O'er glade and o'er valley the glories of June ...
... Rose . The summer is short , and the winter must come , With her hail , and her storm , and her snows , And things that are fairest in our pleasant home Must wither alike with the Rose : O'er glade and o'er valley the glories of June ...
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Page 6 - Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae!
Page 42 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres, till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night.
Page 12 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Page 54 - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. 21 The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from GOD. 22 The sun ariseth, and they get them away together, and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour, until the evening.
Page 26 - Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...
Page 10 - On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own.
Page 64 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing : It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Page 22 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true), Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound...