Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks |
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Page 329
... charms I read , Lowly , meek , from blemish free , In the snow - drop's pensive head . Spring returns , and brings along Life - invigorating suns : Hark ! the turtle's plaintive song , Seems to speak His dying groans ! Summer has a ...
... charms I read , Lowly , meek , from blemish free , In the snow - drop's pensive head . Spring returns , and brings along Life - invigorating suns : Hark ! the turtle's plaintive song , Seems to speak His dying groans ! Summer has a ...
Page 444
... charms , My ling'ring Daphnis to my longing arms . " Pale Phoebe , drawn by verse , from heav'n descends : And Circe changed with charms Ulysses ' friends . Verse breaks the ground , and penetrates the brake , And in the winding cavern ...
... charms , My ling'ring Daphnis to my longing arms . " Pale Phoebe , drawn by verse , from heav'n descends : And Circe changed with charms Ulysses ' friends . Verse breaks the ground , and penetrates the brake , And in the winding cavern ...
Page 445
... charms , Restore their ling'ring lord to my deluded arms . " These pois'nous plants , for magic use designed , ( The noblest and the best of all the baneful kind , ) Old Moeris brought me from the Pontic strand , And culled the mischief ...
... charms , Restore their ling'ring lord to my deluded arms . " These pois'nous plants , for magic use designed , ( The noblest and the best of all the baneful kind , ) Old Moeris brought me from the Pontic strand , And culled the mischief ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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