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Page 113
A PASTORAL On a hill there grows a flower , Fair befall the dainty sweet ! By that flower there is a bower Where the heavenly Muses meet . In that bower there is a chair Fringed all about with gold , Where doth sit the fairest fair That ...
A PASTORAL On a hill there grows a flower , Fair befall the dainty sweet ! By that flower there is a bower Where the heavenly Muses meet . In that bower there is a chair Fringed all about with gold , Where doth sit the fairest fair That ...
Page 127
With orient pearl , with ruby red , With marble white , with sapphire blue Her body every way is fed , Yet soft in touch and sweet in view : Heigh ho , fair Rosaline ! Nature herself her shape admires ; The Gods are wounded in her sight ...
With orient pearl , with ruby red , With marble white , with sapphire blue Her body every way is fed , Yet soft in touch and sweet in view : Heigh ho , fair Rosaline ! Nature herself her shape admires ; The Gods are wounded in her sight ...
Page 174
GEORGE WITHER 1588 - 1667 FAREWELL , SWEET GROVES from “ Fair - Virtue " Farewell , Sweet groves to you ; You hills , that highest dwell , And all you humble vales , adieu . You wanton brooks and solitary rocks , My dear companions all ...
GEORGE WITHER 1588 - 1667 FAREWELL , SWEET GROVES from “ Fair - Virtue " Farewell , Sweet groves to you ; You hills , that highest dwell , And all you humble vales , adieu . You wanton brooks and solitary rocks , My dear companions all ...
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| Title | Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day School edition |
| Editor | Louis Untermeyer |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Collins, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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