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Browning And we too ! from such soul - height went Such leaps of blood , so blindly driven , We scarce knew if our nature meant Most passionate earth or intense heaven . The nightingales , the nightingales .
Browning And we too ! from such soul - height went Such leaps of blood , so blindly driven , We scarce knew if our nature meant Most passionate earth or intense heaven . The nightingales , the nightingales .
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Browning ' If I spend the night with that devil twice , May his window serve as my loop of hell Whence a damned soul looks on paradise ! ' I fly to the Duke who loves me well , Sit by his side and laugh at sorrow Ere I count another ave ...
Browning ' If I spend the night with that devil twice , May his window serve as my loop of hell Whence a damned soul looks on paradise ! ' I fly to the Duke who loves me well , Sit by his side and laugh at sorrow Ere I count another ave ...
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And a deep pity entered Rustum's soul As he beheld him coming ; and he stood , And beckoned to him with his hand , and said : ' O thou young man , the air of Heaven is soft , And warm and pleasant ; but the grave is cold .
And a deep pity entered Rustum's soul As he beheld him coming ; and he stood , And beckoned to him with his hand , and said : ' O thou young man , the air of Heaven is soft , And warm and pleasant ; but the grave is cold .
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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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