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... glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone - We frolic while ' tis May . ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON ...
... glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone - We frolic while ' tis May . ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON ...
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... glittering shafts of war . II . 2 In climes beyond the solar road , Where shaggy forms o'er ice - built mountains roam , The Muse has broke the twilight gloom 56 To cheer the shivering native's dull abode . And oft , beneath the odorous ...
... glittering shafts of war . II . 2 In climes beyond the solar road , Where shaggy forms o'er ice - built mountains roam , The Muse has broke the twilight gloom 56 To cheer the shivering native's dull abode . And oft , beneath the odorous ...
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... glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory , spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages , crowd not on my soul ! No more our long - lost Arthur we bewail . All hail , ye genuine kings , Britannia's issue , hail ! 110 III . 2 " Girt with ...
... glittering skirts unroll ? Visions of glory , spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages , crowd not on my soul ! No more our long - lost Arthur we bewail . All hail , ye genuine kings , Britannia's issue , hail ! 110 III . 2 " Girt with ...
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... Glittering lances are the loom , Where the dusky warp we strain , Weaving many a soldier's doom , Orkney's woe , and Randver's bane . See the griesly texture grow ! ( ' Tis of human entrails made , ) And the weights , that play below ...
... Glittering lances are the loom , Where the dusky warp we strain , Weaving many a soldier's doom , Orkney's woe , and Randver's bane . See the griesly texture grow ! ( ' Tis of human entrails made , ) And the weights , that play below ...
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... glittering board is spread , Dressed for whom yon golden bed ? PROPHETESS Mantling in the goblet see The pure beverage of the bee : O'er it hangs the shield of gold ; ' Tis the drink of Balder bold : 30 35 40 45 Balder's head to death ...
... glittering board is spread , Dressed for whom yon golden bed ? PROPHETESS Mantling in the goblet see The pure beverage of the bee : O'er it hangs the shield of gold ; ' Tis the drink of Balder bold : 30 35 40 45 Balder's head to death ...
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote