Six Centuries of Great Poetry, Volume 2033Robert Penn Warren, Albert Erskine |
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Page 104
... dear soil , if a soul closed in a mansion As sweet as violets , fair as lily is , Straight as cedar , a voice stains the canary bird's , Whose shade safely doth hold , danger avoideth her ; Such wisdom that in her lives speculation ...
... dear soil , if a soul closed in a mansion As sweet as violets , fair as lily is , Straight as cedar , a voice stains the canary bird's , Whose shade safely doth hold , danger avoideth her ; Such wisdom that in her lives speculation ...
Page 128
... dear time's waste : Then can I drown an eye , unused to flow , For precious friends hid in death's dateless night , And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe , And moan the expense of many a vanished sight : Then can I grieve at ...
... dear time's waste : Then can I drown an eye , unused to flow , For precious friends hid in death's dateless night , And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe , And moan the expense of many a vanished sight : Then can I grieve at ...
Page 336
... dear , dear friend ; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart , and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes . Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once , My dear , dear Sister ...
... dear , dear friend ; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart , and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes . Oh ! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once , My dear , dear Sister ...
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Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British ... Robert Penn Warren,Albert Erskine No preview available - 1992 |
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