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... light shalt know ; Tell me what is done below , For whom yon glittering board is spread , Dressed for whom yon golden bed ? 40 159 PROPHETESS Mantling in the goblet see The pure beverage of the bee : O'er it hangs the shield of gold ...
... light shalt know ; Tell me what is done below , For whom yon glittering board is spread , Dressed for whom yon golden bed ? 40 159 PROPHETESS Mantling in the goblet see The pure beverage of the bee : O'er it hangs the shield of gold ...
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... light , And passages that lead to nothing . Full oft within the spacious walls , When he had fifty winters o'er him , My grave Lord - Keeper led the brawls ° ; The seals and maces danced before him . 5 10 His bushy beard , and shoe ...
... light , And passages that lead to nothing . Full oft within the spacious walls , When he had fifty winters o'er him , My grave Lord - Keeper led the brawls ° ; The seals and maces danced before him . 5 10 His bushy beard , and shoe ...
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... light . 15 Rise , my soul ! on wings of fire , Rise the rapturous choir among ; Hark ! ' tis nature strikes the lyre , And leads the general song : Yesterday the sullen year Saw the snowy whirlwind fly ; 20 Mute was the music of the air ...
... light . 15 Rise , my soul ! on wings of fire , Rise the rapturous choir among ; Hark ! ' tis nature strikes the lyre , And leads the general song : Yesterday the sullen year Saw the snowy whirlwind fly ; 20 Mute was the music of the air ...
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... Light golden showers of plenty o'er the land : But tyranny has fixed her empire there , To check their tender hopes with chilling fear , And blast the blooming promise of the year . This spacious animated scene survey , From where the ...
... Light golden showers of plenty o'er the land : But tyranny has fixed her empire there , To check their tender hopes with chilling fear , And blast the blooming promise of the year . This spacious animated scene survey , From where the ...
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... light , on resolution's wings , Spite of her frail companion , dauntless goes 75 O'er Libya's deserts and through Zembla's snows ° ? She bids each slumbering energy awake , Another touch , another temper take , Suspends the inferior ...
... light , on resolution's wings , Spite of her frail companion , dauntless goes 75 O'er Libya's deserts and through Zembla's snows ° ? She bids each slumbering energy awake , Another touch , another temper take , Suspends the inferior ...
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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