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... stand , the baser our defection , if we seize not the yet higher good that we stand within reach of , nor take due occasion of our position to be an example to others ; viii.
... stand , the baser our defection , if we seize not the yet higher good that we stand within reach of , nor take due occasion of our position to be an example to others ; viii.
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... standing long an oak , three hundred year , To fall a log at last , dry , bald , and sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May , Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant and flower of Light . In small proportions we just ...
... standing long an oak , three hundred year , To fall a log at last , dry , bald , and sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May , Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant and flower of Light . In small proportions we just ...
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... Stand fix'd in stedfast gaze , Bending one way their precious influence , And will not take their flight , For all the morning light , Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence ; But in their glimmering Orbs did glow , Until their Lord ...
... Stand fix'd in stedfast gaze , Bending one way their precious influence , And will not take their flight , For all the morning light , Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence ; But in their glimmering Orbs did glow , Until their Lord ...
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... stands . The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . Tennyson . 46 Alexander Selkirk during his Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fer- nandez I AM monarch of all I ...
... stands . The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . Tennyson . 46 Alexander Selkirk during his Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fer- nandez I AM monarch of all I ...
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... stand , No bigger than the Moon . ' Day after day , day after day , We stuck , nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean . ' Water , water , everywhere , And all the boards did shrink ; Water , water ...
... stand , No bigger than the Moon . ' Day after day , day after day , We stuck , nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean . ' Water , water , everywhere , And all the boards did shrink ; Water , water ...
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A. E. Housman auld auld lang syne beauty beneath birds blow breath bright Burns calm Cassius cloud cold dark dead dear death deep delight doth dread dream earth echoing Green eyes fair Farewell flowers glory grave green hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart heaven Henry Newbolt hill John Anderson king Kirconnell land Laurence Binyon leaves light live lonely Lord loud Lycidas maun Milton mist moon morning never night o'er pain pale peace Plymouth Hoe poem QUINQUEREME rest Ring round seem'd Shakespeare Shelley ship shore silent sing sleep song sorrow soul sound spirit Spring stanza stars stream sweet syne tears thee thine things thou art thought tree True Thomas Twas voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Davies waves weary wild wind wings woods youth