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A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics

Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue to wound '5 My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. z<O how I long to travel...
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A Year Book of Famous Lyrics: Selections from the British and American Poets ...

Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1901 - 494 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. Oh how I long to travel back, And tread again that...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity : Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to ev'ry sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long...
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The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient...
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The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1902 - 406 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 3

William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadow of Eternity ; 2 Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense, But felt, through all this sinful dress, Bright shoots of everlastingness. 0 how I long to travel back And tread again that ancient...
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English Literature: From Milton to Johnson, by Edmund Goose

Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 512 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of Eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense, A sev'ral sin to ev'ry sense, But felt through all this fleshy dress Bright shoots of everlastingness....
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From Milton to Johnson

Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 504 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of Eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense, A sev'ral sin to ev'ry sense, But felt through all this fleshy dress Bright shoots of everlastingness....
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The Flower of the Mind: A Choice Among the Best Poems

Alice Meynell - English poetry - 1904 - 388 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense ; But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient...
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A Selection from the Great English Poets: With an Essay on the Reading of Poetry

Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense, But felt through all this earthly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient...
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