The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... appears , Why heaves thy bosom , and why flow thy tears ? See ! from the clouds the spring descends in showers , The ... appears ! DAMON . Shine forth , thou Sun , bright ruler of the day ; And where she treads , ye flowers , adorn the ...
... appears , Why heaves thy bosom , and why flow thy tears ? See ! from the clouds the spring descends in showers , The ... appears ! DAMON . Shine forth , thou Sun , bright ruler of the day ; And where she treads , ye flowers , adorn the ...
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... appears Their fair possessor , shine a thousand years ; By age uninjur'd , future times adorn , And warm the hearts of millions yet unborn , Who , gazing on the portrait with a sigh , Shall grieve such perfect charms could ever die ...
... appears Their fair possessor , shine a thousand years ; By age uninjur'd , future times adorn , And warm the hearts of millions yet unborn , Who , gazing on the portrait with a sigh , Shall grieve such perfect charms could ever die ...
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... appear , To Cælia's eyes a desert is more fair Than all your charms , when Damon is not there ! Gods ! what soft words , what sweet delusive wiles He boasts ! ' and , oh ! those dear undoing smiles ! Pleas'd with our ruin , to his arms ...
... appear , To Cælia's eyes a desert is more fair Than all your charms , when Damon is not there ! Gods ! what soft words , what sweet delusive wiles He boasts ! ' and , oh ! those dear undoing smiles ! Pleas'd with our ruin , to his arms ...
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... appears , The crowd falls back , and as she moves reveres ; Swift to the fane aloft her course she bends ; The fane ... appear , Where should we tly ? I fear , alas , I fear ! No more the Colchian youths , and virgin train , Haunt the ...
... appears , The crowd falls back , and as she moves reveres ; Swift to the fane aloft her course she bends ; The fane ... appear , Where should we tly ? I fear , alas , I fear ! No more the Colchian youths , and virgin train , Haunt the ...
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... appear , Thou ' dst see thyself - for thou art there ! O ! were I made thy folding vest , That thou might'st clasp me to thy breast ! Or turn'd into a fount , to lave Thy naked beauties in my wave ! Thy bosom - cincture I would grow ...
... appear , Thou ' dst see thyself - for thou art there ! O ! were I made thy folding vest , That thou might'st clasp me to thy breast ! Or turn'd into a fount , to lave Thy naked beauties in my wave ! Thy bosom - cincture I would grow ...
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