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A worthless woman ! mere cold clay As all false things are ! but so fair , She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware . I would not play her larcenous tricks To have her looks ! She lied and stole , And spat into my ...
A worthless woman ! mere cold clay As all false things are ! but so fair , She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware . I would not play her larcenous tricks To have her looks ! She lied and stole , And spat into my ...
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Lanier Full high in the breeze , and he stood as if Death had the form of a deer ; And the two slim does long lazily stretching arose , For their day - dream slowlier came to a close , Till they woke and were still , breath - bound with ...
Lanier Full high in the breeze , and he stood as if Death had the form of a deer ; And the two slim does long lazily stretching arose , For their day - dream slowlier came to a close , Till they woke and were still , breath - bound with ...
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he screams under breath . Then , livid as Lazarus lately from death , He snatches the child from the mother , and clambers the crag toward the sea . Now the mother drops breath ; she is dumb , and her heart goes dead for a space ...
he screams under breath . Then , livid as Lazarus lately from death , He snatches the child from the mother , and clambers the crag toward the sea . Now the mother drops breath ; she is dumb , and her heart goes dead for a space ...
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Contents
I | 1 |
John SKBLTON c 14601529 | 12 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 15541586 | 56 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Penguin Book of Narrative Verse Part 49 of The Penguin poets |
| Editor | David Herbert |
| Publisher | Middlesex, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Feb 2005 |
| Length | 462 pages |
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