Juvenile poemsJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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... lay . You , that too wife for pride , too good for pow'r , Enjoy the glory to be great no more , And carrying with you all the world can boast , To all the world illustriously are lost ! O let my mufe her flender reed inspire , Till in ...
... lay . You , that too wife for pride , too good for pow'r , Enjoy the glory to be great no more , And carrying with you all the world can boast , To all the world illustriously are lost ! O let my mufe her flender reed inspire , Till in ...
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... lays ! A milk - white bull fhall at your altars stand , That threats a fight , and spurns the rising fand .. DAPHNIS . O Love ! for Sylvia let me gain the prize , And make my tongue victorious as her eyes ; No lambs or sheep for victims ...
... lays ! A milk - white bull fhall at your altars stand , That threats a fight , and spurns the rising fand .. DAPHNIS . O Love ! for Sylvia let me gain the prize , And make my tongue victorious as her eyes ; No lambs or sheep for victims ...
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... lays , That adds this wreath of ivy to thy bays ; Hear what from Love unpractis'd hearts endure , From Love , the ... lay Why art SUMMER : SUMMER, the Second Poftoral.
... lays , That adds this wreath of ivy to thy bays ; Hear what from Love unpractis'd hearts endure , From Love , the ... lay Why art SUMMER : SUMMER, the Second Poftoral.
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Alexander Pope. The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay Why art thou prouder and more hard than they ? The bleating ... lays , Embrace my love and bind my brows with bays . That flute is mine which Colin's tuneful breath Infpir'd when ...
Alexander Pope. The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay Why art thou prouder and more hard than they ? The bleating ... lays , Embrace my love and bind my brows with bays . That flute is mine which Colin's tuneful breath Infpir'd when ...
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... lays ; This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent love , And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your facred fuccour bring ; Hylas and Aegon's rural lays I fing . Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit ...
... lays ; This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent love , And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your facred fuccour bring ; Hylas and Aegon's rural lays I fing . Thou , whom the Nine with Plautus ' wit ...
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ancient ANTISTROPHE ariſe beauty Belinda beſt bleft bluſh breaſt bright ceafe charms critics Cynthus DAPHNIS Eclogue Eurydice ev'ry eyes facred faid fair fame fate fatire fcenes feas feem fenfe fhades fhall fhining fhould fighs filent filver fince fing firſt fkies flame flocks flow flowers foft fome fong foon forefts foul fpirits fpring ftill ftreams fubject fuch fung fwains fwell fylvan Gnome grace groves hair heart heaven honours infpire itſelf laft laſt lefs lofe loft lov'd lyre maid moſt mournful Mufe mufic muſt nature numbers nymph o'er paffion Paftoral paſt Phaon Phoebus plain pleaſe pleaſure praiſe rage refound rife Sappho ſcene SEMICHORUS ſhades ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhore ſkies ſky ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtrains Sylphs tears thee thefe Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro trembling Umbriel uſeful vafe Virg virgin whofe whoſe winds