Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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... look too kind on my desires , For then my hopes will spill me . Oh , do not steep them in thy tears , For so will ... look on her eyes , they do light All that Love's world compriseth ! Do but look on her hair , it is bright As Love's ...
... look too kind on my desires , For then my hopes will spill me . Oh , do not steep them in thy tears , For so will ... look on her eyes , they do light All that Love's world compriseth ! Do but look on her hair , it is bright As Love's ...
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... look that's fastened to the ground , A tongue chained up , without a sound ! Fountain heads , and pathless groves , Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks , when all the fowls Are warmly housed , save bats and owls ! A ...
... look that's fastened to the ground , A tongue chained up , without a sound ! Fountain heads , and pathless groves , Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks , when all the fowls Are warmly housed , save bats and owls ! A ...
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... Look , look , what bustling Here I do espy ; Each another jostling , Every one turmoiling , Th ' other spoiling , As I did pass them by . One sitteth musing in a dumpish passion , Another hangs his head because he's out of fashion , A ...
... Look , look , what bustling Here I do espy ; Each another jostling , Every one turmoiling , Th ' other spoiling , As I did pass them by . One sitteth musing in a dumpish passion , Another hangs his head because he's out of fashion , A ...
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HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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