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The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp ; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night . See ! how she leans her cheek upon her ...
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp ; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night . See ! how she leans her cheek upon her ...
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Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose , Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure , Can execute their airy purposes , And works of love or enmity fulfill . For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living Strength ...
Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose , Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure , Can execute their airy purposes , And works of love or enmity fulfill . For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living Strength ...
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Swift as light thoughts their empty carriere run , Thy race is finished , when begun , Let a post - angel start with thee , And thou the goal of earth shalt reach as soon as he : Thou in the moon's bright chariot proud and gay ...
Swift as light thoughts their empty carriere run , Thy race is finished , when begun , Let a post - angel start with thee , And thou the goal of earth shalt reach as soon as he : Thou in the moon's bright chariot proud and gay ...
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Contents
EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry, Volume 1 The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 443 pages |
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