The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1971 - 727 pages |
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Page 244
... night - struck Fancy dreams , the yelling Ghost . Among the crooked Lanes , on every Hedge , The Glow - Worm lights his Gem ; and , thro ' the Dark , A moving Radiance twinkles . Evening yields The World to Night ; not in her Winter ...
... night - struck Fancy dreams , the yelling Ghost . Among the crooked Lanes , on every Hedge , The Glow - Worm lights his Gem ; and , thro ' the Dark , A moving Radiance twinkles . Evening yields The World to Night ; not in her Winter ...
Page 407
... Night 1715-1766 OW sunk the Sun , now Twilight sunk , and Night Rode in her zenith ; nor a passing breeze Sigh'd to the groves , which in the midnight air Stood motionless , and in the peaceful floods Inverted hung : For now the billow ...
... Night 1715-1766 OW sunk the Sun , now Twilight sunk , and Night Rode in her zenith ; nor a passing breeze Sigh'd to the groves , which in the midnight air Stood motionless , and in the peaceful floods Inverted hung : For now the billow ...
Page 637
... night . Is thought to be a night when Witches , Devils , and other mischief - making beings , are all abroad on their baneful , midnight errands : particularly , those aerial people , the Fairies , are said , on that night , to hold a ...
... night . Is thought to be a night when Witches , Devils , and other mischief - making beings , are all abroad on their baneful , midnight errands : particularly , those aerial people , the Fairies , are said , on that night , to hold a ...
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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