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... Tell me , ye winged winds Tubal Ca'n Poor Man and the Fiend , The . Waiting for the Grapes . MAHONY , FRANCIS ( Father Prout ) . Areland , o Bells of Shandon , The Malbrouck ( Translation ' Sentimental Gardener , The ( Translation ) ...
... Tell me , ye winged winds Tubal Ca'n Poor Man and the Fiend , The . Waiting for the Grapes . MAHONY , FRANCIS ( Father Prout ) . Areland , o Bells of Shandon , The Malbrouck ( Translation ' Sentimental Gardener , The ( Translation ) ...
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... tell a story in verse without occasional tediousness . In our day the style of writing adopted by eminent living poets is often seen reflected in the verses of their younger contemporaries , sometimes with an effect like that of a face ...
... tell a story in verse without occasional tediousness . In our day the style of writing adopted by eminent living poets is often seen reflected in the verses of their younger contemporaries , sometimes with an effect like that of a face ...
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... tell what a baby thinks ? Who can follow the gossamer links By which the manikin feels his way Out from the shore of the great unknown , Blind , and wailing , and alone , Into the light of day ? Out from the shore of the unknown sea ...
... tell what a baby thinks ? Who can follow the gossamer links By which the manikin feels his way Out from the shore of the great unknown , Blind , and wailing , and alone , Into the light of day ? Out from the shore of the unknown sea ...
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... tell . " She answered , " Seven are we ; And two of us at Conway dwell , And two are gone to sea ; " Two of us in the churchyard lie , My sister and my brother ; And , in the churchyard cottage , I Dwell near them with my mother ...
... tell . " She answered , " Seven are we ; And two of us at Conway dwell , And two are gone to sea ; " Two of us in the churchyard lie , My sister and my brother ; And , in the churchyard cottage , I Dwell near them with my mother ...
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... tell thee , We have a power on foot ; and I had purpose Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn , Or lose mine arm for ' t . Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times , and I have nightly since Dreamt of encounters ' twixt thyself ...
... tell thee , We have a power on foot ; and I had purpose Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn , Or lose mine arm for ' t . Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times , and I have nightly since Dreamt of encounters ' twixt thyself ...
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Page 234 - Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
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Page 621 - Haunted forever by the eternal mind! — Mighty prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou over whom thy immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness...
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