Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day |
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Page 120
ICE AND FIRE My Love is like to ice , and I to fire : How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire , But harder ...
ICE AND FIRE My Love is like to ice , and I to fire : How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire , But harder ...
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ROBERT SOUTHWELL 1561 - 1595 THE BURNING BABE 66 As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow , Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow ; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near ...
ROBERT SOUTHWELL 1561 - 1595 THE BURNING BABE 66 As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow , Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow ; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near ...
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This hopeful beauty did create New life in love's declining state ; But now his empire ends , and we From fire and wounding darts are free . His brand , his bow , let no man fear : The flames , the arrows , all lie here .
This hopeful beauty did create New life in love's declining state ; But now his empire ends , and we From fire and wounding darts are free . His brand , his bow , let no man fear : The flames , the arrows , all lie here .
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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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