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252 So these but wait the owners ' last despair , And what's permitted to the flames invade : Ev'n from their jaws they hungry morsels tear , And , on their backs , the spoils of Vulcan lade . 253 The days were all in this lost labour ...
252 So these but wait the owners ' last despair , And what's permitted to the flames invade : Ev'n from their jaws they hungry morsels tear , And , on their backs , the spoils of Vulcan lade . 253 The days were all in this lost labour ...
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266 We all have sinn'd , and thou has laid us low , As humble earth from whence at first we came : Like flying shades before the clouds we show , And shrink like parchment in consuming flame . 267 O let it be enough what thou hast done ...
266 We all have sinn'd , and thou has laid us low , As humble earth from whence at first we came : Like flying shades before the clouds we show , And shrink like parchment in consuming flame . 267 O let it be enough what thou hast done ...
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280 At length th ' Almighty cast a pitying eye , And mercy softly touch'd his melting breast : He saw the town's one half in rubbish lie , And eager flames drive on to storm the rest . 281 An hollow crystal pyramid he takes ...
280 At length th ' Almighty cast a pitying eye , And mercy softly touch'd his melting breast : He saw the town's one half in rubbish lie , And eager flames drive on to storm the rest . 281 An hollow crystal pyramid he takes ...
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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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