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And I untightened next the tress About her neck ; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss : I propped her head up as before , Only , this time my shoulder bore Her head , which droops upon it still : The smiling rosy ...
And I untightened next the tress About her neck ; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss : I propped her head up as before , Only , this time my shoulder bore Her head , which droops upon it still : The smiling rosy ...
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Yet once more joy they took of woodland ways Than came of all those ... For the knight Forth was once ridden toward some frontier fight Against the lewd folk of the Christless lands That warred with wild and intermittent hands Against ...
Yet once more joy they took of woodland ways Than came of all those ... For the knight Forth was once ridden toward some frontier fight Against the lewd folk of the Christless lands That warred with wild and intermittent hands Against ...
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... Dared him and again defied ; Not a sovereign buck or boar Came a second time for more ; Not a serpent that survived Once the terrors of his hoof Risked a second time reproof , Came a second time and lived , Not a serpent in its skin ...
... Dared him and again defied ; Not a sovereign buck or boar Came a second time for more ; Not a serpent that survived Once the terrors of his hoof Risked a second time reproof , Came a second time and lived , Not a serpent in its skin ...
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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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