The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1971 - 727 pages |
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Page 173
... Song OVE in her Eyes sits playing , Land sheds delicious Death ; Love in her Lips is straying , And warbling in her Breath ; Love on her Breast sits panting , And swells with soft Desire ; Nor Grace , nor Charm , is wanting To set the ...
... Song OVE in her Eyes sits playing , Land sheds delicious Death ; Love in her Lips is straying , And warbling in her Breath ; Love on her Breast sits panting , And swells with soft Desire ; Nor Grace , nor Charm , is wanting To set the ...
Page 290
... Song in Praise of Old English Roast Beef 1670-1758 WHEN mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's Food , It enobled our Veins and enriched our Blood , Our Soldiers were brave and our Courtiers were good . Oh the Roast Beef of Old England ...
... Song in Praise of Old English Roast Beef 1670-1758 WHEN mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's Food , It enobled our Veins and enriched our Blood , Our Soldiers were brave and our Courtiers were good . Oh the Roast Beef of Old England ...
Page 618
... songs of pleasant glee , On a cloud I saw a child , And he laughing said to me : ' Pipe a song about a Lamb ! ' So I piped with chear . merry ' Piper , pipe that song again ; ' So I piped : he wept to hear . Drop thy pipe , thy happy ...
... songs of pleasant glee , On a cloud I saw a child , And he laughing said to me : ' Pipe a song about a Lamb ! ' So I piped with chear . merry ' Piper , pipe that song again ; ' So I piped : he wept to hear . Drop thy pipe , thy happy ...
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auld lang syne beauty beneath bless blest bliss bloom bosom breast breath busk charms chearful Cumnor dear Death delight divine dydd e'er Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair Fame Fancy Fate fear flowers frae Glory grace grave green Grongar Hill grove hand happy hear heart Heart of Oak Heav'n hill hour King live Lord lov'd lyre maid maun mind morning mourn Muse Nature's ne'er never night numbers Nymph o'er Olney Hymns pain Passion peace Pity plain pleas'd pleasure Poems poor pow'r praise pride rise round scene Scots Musical Museum shade shine sigh sing smile soft Song Sonnet sorrow soul Spring strain stream swain sweet tears tell thee thine thou thought thro toil Twas vale verse Virtue voice wave wawking weep wild wind wings wyfe wyllowe Yarrow ynne youth