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Page 130
THEN AND NOW When men shall find thy flower , thy glory , pass , And thou , with careful brow sitting alone , Received hast this message from thy glass , That tells the truth and says that all is gone ; Fresh shalt thou see in me the ...
THEN AND NOW When men shall find thy flower , thy glory , pass , And thou , with careful brow sitting alone , Received hast this message from thy glass , That tells the truth and says that all is gone ; Fresh shalt thou see in me the ...
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DEATH , BE NOT PROUD Death , be not proud , though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful , for thou art not so ; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not , poor Death ; nor yet canst thou kill me .
DEATH , BE NOT PROUD Death , be not proud , though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful , for thou art not so ; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not , poor Death ; nor yet canst thou kill me .
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BEAUTY Beauty , thou wild fantastic ape , Who dost in ev'ry country change thy shape ! Here black , there brown , here tawny , and there white ; Thou flatt'rer which compli'st with every sight ! Thou Babel which confound'st the eye With ...
BEAUTY Beauty , thou wild fantastic ape , Who dost in ev'ry country change thy shape ! Here black , there brown , here tawny , and there white ; Thou flatt'rer which compli'st with every sight ! Thou Babel which confound'st the eye With ...
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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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