Juvenile poemsJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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... wings . Soon as the flocks fhook off the nightly dews , Two fwains , whom Love kept wakeful , and the Mufe , Pour'd o'er the whitening vale their fleecy care , Fresh as the morn , and as the season fair : The dawn now blushing on the ...
... wings . Soon as the flocks fhook off the nightly dews , Two fwains , whom Love kept wakeful , and the Mufe , Pour'd o'er the whitening vale their fleecy care , Fresh as the morn , and as the season fair : The dawn now blushing on the ...
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... wings ; No more the birds shall imitate her lays , Or hush'd with wonder , hearken from the fprays : No more the ftreams their murmurs fhall forbear , A fweeter mufic than their own to hear ; But tell the reeds , and tell the vocal ...
... wings ; No more the birds shall imitate her lays , Or hush'd with wonder , hearken from the fprays : No more the ftreams their murmurs fhall forbear , A fweeter mufic than their own to hear ; But tell the reeds , and tell the vocal ...
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... amaz'd , defenceless prize , And high in air Britannia's standard flies . See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs , And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound 38 v . 830 WINDSOR - ...
... amaz'd , defenceless prize , And high in air Britannia's standard flies . See ! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs , And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound 38 v . 830 WINDSOR - ...
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... wings , and breast that flames with gold ? Nor yet , when moist Arcturus clouds the sky , The woods and fields their pleafing toils deny . To plains with well - breath'd beagles we repair , And trace the mazes of the circling hare ...
... wings , and breast that flames with gold ? Nor yet , when moist Arcturus clouds the sky , The woods and fields their pleafing toils deny . To plains with well - breath'd beagles we repair , And trace the mazes of the circling hare ...
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... wing . Even I more sweetly pass my careless days , Pleas'd in the filent fhade with empty praise ; Enough for me , that to the listening fwains First in these fields I fung the fylvan strains . VOL . I. E O DE ON ST . CECILIA'S DAY . M ...
... wing . Even I more sweetly pass my careless days , Pleas'd in the filent fhade with empty praise ; Enough for me , that to the listening fwains First in these fields I fung the fylvan strains . VOL . I. E O DE ON ST . CECILIA'S DAY . M ...
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