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... kings , ° Britannia's issue , hail ! 110 III . 2 " Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames , and statesmen old In bearded majesty , appear . In the midst a form divine ° ! Her eye proclaims ...
... kings , ° Britannia's issue , hail ! 110 III . 2 " Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames , and statesmen old In bearded majesty , appear . In the midst a form divine ° ! Her eye proclaims ...
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... king your shield . We the reins to slaughter give , Ours to kill , and ours to spare : Spite of danger he shall live . ( Weave the crimson web of war . ) They , whom once the desert - beach ° Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ...
... king your shield . We the reins to slaughter give , Ours to kill , and ours to spare : Spite of danger he shall live . ( Weave the crimson web of war . ) They , whom once the desert - beach ° Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ...
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... king shall bite the ground . Long his loss shall Eirin weep , Ne'er again his likeness see ; Long her strains in sorrow steep : Strains of immortality ! Horror covers all the heath , Clouds of carnage blot the sun . Sisters , weave the ...
... king shall bite the ground . Long his loss shall Eirin weep , Ne'er again his likeness see ; Long her strains in sorrow steep : Strains of immortality ! Horror covers all the heath , Clouds of carnage blot the sun . Sisters , weave the ...
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... king of men with speed , And saddled straight his coal - black steed ; Down the yawning steep he rode , That leads to Hela's drear abode . ° Him the dog of darkness spied ; His shaggy throat he opened wide ( While from his jaws , with ...
... king of men with speed , And saddled straight his coal - black steed ; Down the yawning steep he rode , That leads to Hela's drear abode . ° Him the dog of darkness spied ; His shaggy throat he opened wide ( While from his jaws , with ...
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... King of men , I know thee now ; Mightiest of a mighty line . ODIN No boding maid of skill divine Art thou , nor prophetess of good ; 85 But mother of the giant brood ! PROPHETESS Hie thee hence , and boast at home , That never shall ...
... King of men , I know thee now ; Mightiest of a mighty line . ODIN No boding maid of skill divine Art thou , nor prophetess of good ; 85 But mother of the giant brood ! PROPHETESS Hie thee hence , and boast at home , That never shall ...
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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