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1 4 Edwin , if right I read my song , With slighted passion pac'd along All in the moony light ; ' Twas near an old inchanted court , Where sportive fairies made refort , To revel out the night . His heart was drear , his hope was ...
1 4 Edwin , if right I read my song , With slighted passion pac'd along All in the moony light ; ' Twas near an old inchanted court , Where sportive fairies made refort , To revel out the night . His heart was drear , his hope was ...
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... again to flow , The moon repletes her waining face , All - beauteous , from her late disgrace , And suns , that mourn approaching night , Refulgent rise with new - born light , In vain may Death and Time subdue , While Nature mints ...
... again to flow , The moon repletes her waining face , All - beauteous , from her late disgrace , And suns , that mourn approaching night , Refulgent rise with new - born light , In vain may Death and Time subdue , While Nature mints ...
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... a certain height Give mortals neither heat sor light : Yet Yet some of either fex , endow'd With gifts superior ENGLISH POES Y. 189.
... a certain height Give mortals neither heat sor light : Yet Yet some of either fex , endow'd With gifts superior ENGLISH POES Y. 189.
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Contents
Collin and Lucy a Ballad | 84 |
On the Death of the Lord Protector | 91 |
Satire | 135 |
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| Title | The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2 The Beauties of English Poesy, Oliver Goldsmith |
| Editor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | James Williams, 1771 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2006 |
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