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Sketch of his own Character William Shakespeare Song A Long Story Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude The Alliance of Education and Government Ode for Music 12 14 15 17 22 28 31 35 36 37 38 38 39 40 40 47 49 53 168WHBn ...
Sketch of his own Character William Shakespeare Song A Long Story Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude The Alliance of Education and Government Ode for Music 12 14 15 17 22 28 31 35 36 37 38 38 39 40 40 47 49 53 168WHBn ...
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5 The Attic warblero pours her throat , Responsive to the cuckoo's note , The untaught harmony of spring : While , whispering pleasure as they fly , Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gathered fragrance fling .
5 The Attic warblero pours her throat , Responsive to the cuckoo's note , The untaught harmony of spring : While , whispering pleasure as they fly , Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gathered fragrance fling .
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O 20 25 Say , father Thames , for thou hast seeno Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ?
O 20 25 Say , father Thames , for thou hast seeno Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ?
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Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer , And new - born pleasure brings to happier men : 10 The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear ...
Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer , And new - born pleasure brings to happier men : 10 The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear ...
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O'er Idalia's velvet - greeno The rosy - crowned Loveso are seen On Cytherea's dayo : With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , 30 Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , Now in circling troops they meet ...
O'er Idalia's velvet - greeno The rosy - crowned Loveso are seen On Cytherea's dayo : With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , 30 Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , Now in circling troops they meet ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems Macmillian's pocket American and English classics |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1909 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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