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... fair imperial flower ; She seemed designed for Flora's hand , ° The sceptre of her power . V This civil bickering and debate The goddess chanced to hear , And flew to save , ere yet too late , The pride of the parterre ° ; 20 20 VI ...
... fair imperial flower ; She seemed designed for Flora's hand , ° The sceptre of her power . V This civil bickering and debate The goddess chanced to hear , And flew to save , ere yet too late , The pride of the parterre ° ; 20 20 VI ...
Page 99
... fair , That memory keeps of all the kindness there , Still outlives many a storm , that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced . Thy nightly visits to my chamber made , 55 55 60 That thou mightst know me safe and warmly ...
... fair , That memory keeps of all the kindness there , Still outlives many a storm , that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced . Thy nightly visits to my chamber made , 55 55 60 That thou mightst know me safe and warmly ...
Page 111
... fair outside : An error soon corrected ; CICERO . For who , but learns , with riper years , That man , when smoothest he appears , Is most to be suspected ! 5 10 15 20 20 But here again a danger lies Lest , thus deluded ON FRIENDSHIP ...
... fair outside : An error soon corrected ; CICERO . For who , but learns , with riper years , That man , when smoothest he appears , Is most to be suspected ! 5 10 15 20 20 But here again a danger lies Lest , thus deluded ON FRIENDSHIP ...
Page 138
... fair , Though eloquent themselves , yet fear to break ; What is it , but a map of busy life , Its fluctuations , and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition . On the summit , see , The seals ...
... fair , Though eloquent themselves , yet fear to break ; What is it , but a map of busy life , Its fluctuations , and its vast concerns ? Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition . On the summit , see , The seals ...
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... fair ; 150 155 A wreath that cannot fade , or flowers that blow With most success when all besides decay . The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for the amusement of the rest ; 159 The sprightly lyre , whose treasure of sweet ...
... fair ; 150 155 A wreath that cannot fade , or flowers that blow With most success when all besides decay . The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for the amusement of the rest ; 159 The sprightly lyre , whose treasure of sweet ...
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar 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