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Page 259
... child and I was a child , In this kingdom by the sea , But we loved with a love that was more than love - I and my Annabel Lee - With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me . And this was the reason that , long ago ...
... child and I was a child , In this kingdom by the sea , But we loved with a love that was more than love - I and my Annabel Lee - With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me . And this was the reason that , long ago ...
Page 307
... child With joy ; and all the pleasant life they led , They three , in that long - distant summer - time The castle , and the dewy woods , and hunt And hound , and morn on those delightful hills In Ader - baijan . And he saw that youth ...
... child With joy ; and all the pleasant life they led , They three , in that long - distant summer - time The castle , and the dewy woods , and hunt And hound , and morn on those delightful hills In Ader - baijan . And he saw that youth ...
Page 341
... child I had killed if the gluttonous kern had not wrought me a snail's own wrong ! ' Then he sounded , and down came ... child ! ' Then the clansmen departed , by this path and that ; and over the hill Sped Maclean with an outward wrath ...
... child I had killed if the gluttonous kern had not wrought me a snail's own wrong ! ' Then he sounded , and down came ... child ! ' Then the clansmen departed , by this path and that ; and over the hill Sped Maclean with an outward wrath ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340?1400 | 1 |
ROBERT HENRYSON c 14301506 | 7 |
ANONYMOUS | 15 |
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