The Book of Restoration VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite Brentano's, 1910 - 864 pages |
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... sleep , the lazy owl of night ; Asham'd and fearful to appear They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere . With them there hastes , and wildly takes the alarm , Of painted dreams , a busy swarm , At the first opening of ...
... sleep , the lazy owl of night ; Asham'd and fearful to appear They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere . With them there hastes , and wildly takes the alarm , Of painted dreams , a busy swarm , At the first opening of ...
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... Sleep , sleep again my Lyre ; For thou can'st never tell my humble tale , In sounds that will prevail , Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire ; All thy vain mirth lay by , Bid thy strings silent lie , Sleep , sleep again , my Lyre , and ...
... Sleep , sleep again my Lyre ; For thou can'st never tell my humble tale , In sounds that will prevail , Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire ; All thy vain mirth lay by , Bid thy strings silent lie , Sleep , sleep again , my Lyre , and ...
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... sleep , And I shall smile in death to see thee weep . Thy tears may To reinspire have the power My ashes with new fire , Or change me to some flower , Which , planted ' twixt thy breasts , shall grow : Veil'd in this shape , I will ...
... sleep , And I shall smile in death to see thee weep . Thy tears may To reinspire have the power My ashes with new fire , Or change me to some flower , Which , planted ' twixt thy breasts , shall grow : Veil'd in this shape , I will ...
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... sleep with me ; And they who should attest thy glory Will or forget , or not believe this story . Then , to increase thy triumph , let me rest , ( Since by thine eye slain , ) buried in thy breast ! T. Stanley 62 . To the State of Love ...
... sleep with me ; And they who should attest thy glory Will or forget , or not believe this story . Then , to increase thy triumph , let me rest , ( Since by thine eye slain , ) buried in thy breast ! T. Stanley 62 . To the State of Love ...
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... sleep , But only human eyes can weep . Now , like two clouds dissolving , drop , And at each tear in distance stop ; Now , like two fountains , trickle down ; Now , like two floods , o'erturn and drown : Thus let your streams o'erflow ...
... sleep , But only human eyes can weep . Now , like two clouds dissolving , drop , And at each tear in distance stop ; Now , like two fountains , trickle down ; Now , like two floods , o'erturn and drown : Thus let your streams o'erflow ...
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