Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin A. Hart, Carey & Hart, 1850 - 807 pages |
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... Once alive , and love not thee With a passion far above All that e'er was called love ; In a Libyan desert may I become some lion's prey ; Let him , Acme , let him tear My breast , when Acme is not there . " The god of love , who stood ...
... Once alive , and love not thee With a passion far above All that e'er was called love ; In a Libyan desert may I become some lion's prey ; Let him , Acme , let him tear My breast , when Acme is not there . " The god of love , who stood ...
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... once such fairies dance , no grass doth ever grow . " When my new mind had no infusion known , Thou gav'st so deep a tincture of thine own , That ever since I vainly try To wash away th ' inherent dye : Long work perhaps may spoil thy ...
... once such fairies dance , no grass doth ever grow . " When my new mind had no infusion known , Thou gav'st so deep a tincture of thine own , That ever since I vainly try To wash away th ' inherent dye : Long work perhaps may spoil thy ...
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... once more , O ye laurels , and once more . Ye myrtles brown , with ivy never - sere , I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And , with forc'd fingers rude , Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . Bitter constraint ...
... once more , O ye laurels , and once more . Ye myrtles brown , with ivy never - sere , I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And , with forc'd fingers rude , Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . Bitter constraint ...
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... once known , shall soon return , And bring ye to the place where thou and Death Shall dwell at ease , and up and down unseen Wing silently the buxom air , imbalm'd With odors : there ye shall be fed and fill'd Immeasurably ; all things ...
... once known , shall soon return , And bring ye to the place where thou and Death Shall dwell at ease , and up and down unseen Wing silently the buxom air , imbalm'd With odors : there ye shall be fed and fill'd Immeasurably ; all things ...
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... once more Erect the standard there of ancient Night : Yours be the advantage all , mine the revenge . " Thus Satan ; and him thus the Anarch old , With faltering speech and visage incompos'd , Answer'd . " I know thee , stranger , who ...
... once more Erect the standard there of ancient Night : Yours be the advantage all , mine the revenge . " Thus Satan ; and him thus the Anarch old , With faltering speech and visage incompos'd , Answer'd . " I know thee , stranger , who ...
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