The Muses' Bower,: Embellished with the Beauties of English Poetry, 2. köideW. Plant Piercy, 1809 |
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... fatal dirges sing , While vapours pale a dreadful glimmering cast , And thrilling horror howls in every blast ; She cheers his gloom with streams of bursting light , By day a sun , a beaming moon by night ; Darts through the quivering ...
... fatal dirges sing , While vapours pale a dreadful glimmering cast , And thrilling horror howls in every blast ; She cheers his gloom with streams of bursting light , By day a sun , a beaming moon by night ; Darts through the quivering ...
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... fatal ring , A weak defence from hunger's pointed sting , From sad remorse , from comfortless depair , And all the painful family of care ! Frantic with grief her rosy cheek she tore , And rent her locks , her darling charge no more ...
... fatal ring , A weak defence from hunger's pointed sting , From sad remorse , from comfortless depair , And all the painful family of care ! Frantic with grief her rosy cheek she tore , And rent her locks , her darling charge no more ...
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... and golden hair : Her fatal ring , the cause of all her woes , On a hard rock with maddening rage she throws ; VOL . I. C The gem , rebounding from the stone , displays Its SIR W. JONES . ] THE PALACE OF FORTUNE , 25.
... and golden hair : Her fatal ring , the cause of all her woes , On a hard rock with maddening rage she throws ; VOL . I. C The gem , rebounding from the stone , displays Its SIR W. JONES . ] THE PALACE OF FORTUNE , 25.
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... fatal lance , While desperate legions o'er the plain advance . How should a simple youth , unfit to bear The steely mail , that splendid mantle wear ? ' Ah ! ' said the damsel , ' from this happy shore , We banish wisdom , and her idle ...
... fatal lance , While desperate legions o'er the plain advance . How should a simple youth , unfit to bear The steely mail , that splendid mantle wear ? ' Ah ! ' said the damsel , ' from this happy shore , We banish wisdom , and her idle ...
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... ! ) And with fresh chaplets strow'd the fatal plain . The happy exile , monarch now no more , Was roving slowly o'er the lonely shore ; At last the sire's expected voice he knew , And 48 [ SIR W. JONES . THE SEVEN FOUNTAINS .
... ! ) And with fresh chaplets strow'd the fatal plain . The happy exile , monarch now no more , Was roving slowly o'er the lonely shore ; At last the sire's expected voice he knew , And 48 [ SIR W. JONES . THE SEVEN FOUNTAINS .
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