Cyclopædia of poetical quotations ... Edited by H. G. AdamsRobert Forrester, 1865 - 16 pages |
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... brows : to gentle life's descent , We shut our eyes , and think it is a plain : We take fair days in winter for the spring ; And turn our blessings into bane . Prior . Young . -I left him in a green old age , And looking like the oak ...
... brows : to gentle life's descent , We shut our eyes , and think it is a plain : We take fair days in winter for the spring ; And turn our blessings into bane . Prior . Young . -I left him in a green old age , And looking like the oak ...
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... brow ; For time digs pits where hate and cunning sleep ; And sixty winter winds can ne'er pass by , And leave the heart still warm . Age is a grave , Where kindness , and quelled passion , and mute love , Lie hand in hand - cold - dead ...
... brow ; For time digs pits where hate and cunning sleep ; And sixty winter winds can ne'er pass by , And leave the heart still warm . Age is a grave , Where kindness , and quelled passion , and mute love , Lie hand in hand - cold - dead ...
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... brow ? To view each loved one blighted from life's page , And be alone on earth - as I am now . Byron . Alone she sat - alone ! that worn - out word , So idly spoken and so coldly heard ; Yet all that poets sing , and grief hath known ...
... brow ? To view each loved one blighted from life's page , And be alone on earth - as I am now . Byron . Alone she sat - alone ! that worn - out word , So idly spoken and so coldly heard ; Yet all that poets sing , and grief hath known ...
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... brow , The brutes and plumy pilgrims of the air , The insect tribe , and all the scaly troop That wing their rapid way , proclaim a GOD ! Behold the lion bounding from his den With red and rolling eye ! or hear the bear While grimly ...
... brow , The brutes and plumy pilgrims of the air , The insect tribe , and all the scaly troop That wing their rapid way , proclaim a GOD ! Behold the lion bounding from his den With red and rolling eye ! or hear the bear While grimly ...
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... brow , and on a bent , The temple stood of Mars armipotent . * * * * * The whole division that to Mars pertains , All trades of death that deal in steel for gains , Were there : the butcher , armourer , and smith , Who forges sharpened ...
... brow , and on a bent , The temple stood of Mars armipotent . * * * * * The whole division that to Mars pertains , All trades of death that deal in steel for gains , Were there : the butcher , armourer , and smith , Who forges sharpened ...
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