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... things past , I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought , And with old woes new wail my 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 ...
... things past , I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought , And with old woes new wail my 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 ...
Page 412
... things that be praise Him , and had Their lesson taught them when first made . So hills and valleys into singing break ; And though poor stones have neither speech nor tongue , While active winds and streams both run and speak , Yet ...
... things that be praise Him , and had Their lesson taught them when first made . So hills and valleys into singing break ; And though poor stones have neither speech nor tongue , While active winds and streams both run and speak , Yet ...
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... things that a hot fire warps , Old ships that the blue wave tosses , And fiddles for music , and harps ; Oak boards where the carved ferns mingle , Monks ' shrines in the wilderness , Snug little huts in the dingle , All things that the ...
... things that a hot fire warps , Old ships that the blue wave tosses , And fiddles for music , and harps ; Oak boards where the carved ferns mingle , Monks ' shrines in the wilderness , Snug little huts in the dingle , All things that the ...
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50 | 73 |
Alexander Montgomerie b 1540 d | 80 |
Fulke Greville Lord Brooke b 1554 | 145 |
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 Arthur Quiller-Couch,Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch No preview available - 1966 |
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