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... lonely place , with pleasures dignified . I once that loved the shady woods so well , Now thought the rivers did the trees excell , And if the sun would ever shine , there would I dwell . While on the stealing stream I fixt mine eye ...
... lonely place , with pleasures dignified . I once that loved the shady woods so well , Now thought the rivers did the trees excell , And if the sun would ever shine , there would I dwell . While on the stealing stream I fixt mine eye ...
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... lonely walk the field , With inward sorrow fill'd , And sigh to every breathing wind . The facetious MATHER BYLES was in his time equally famous as a poet and a wit . A contemporary bard exclaims- Would but APOLLO's genial touch inspire ...
... lonely walk the field , With inward sorrow fill'd , And sigh to every breathing wind . The facetious MATHER BYLES was in his time equally famous as a poet and a wit . A contemporary bard exclaims- Would but APOLLO's genial touch inspire ...
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... lonely - musing pilgrim now inquires ; And , rack'd by storms and hastening to decay , Mohammed's mosque foresces its final fires , And Rome's more lordly temple day by day expires . As o'er proud Asian realms the traveller winds , His ...
... lonely - musing pilgrim now inquires ; And , rack'd by storms and hastening to decay , Mohammed's mosque foresces its final fires , And Rome's more lordly temple day by day expires . As o'er proud Asian realms the traveller winds , His ...
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... lonely ; shivering and forlorn , The poor , sad sailors wish the lingering morn : Not with less fury rush'd the vengeful train ; Not with less tumult roar'd the embattled plain . Now in the oak's black shade they fought conceal'd ; And ...
... lonely ; shivering and forlorn , The poor , sad sailors wish the lingering morn : Not with less fury rush'd the vengeful train ; Not with less tumult roar'd the embattled plain . Now in the oak's black shade they fought conceal'd ; And ...
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... lonely little barque Scudding along the crested wave , Freighted like old Noah's ark , As o'er the drowned earth ' t was hurl'd , With the forefathers of another world . I see a train of exiles stand , Amid the desert , desolate , The ...
... lonely little barque Scudding along the crested wave , Freighted like old Noah's ark , As o'er the drowned earth ' t was hurl'd , With the forefathers of another world . I see a train of exiles stand , Amid the desert , desolate , The ...
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