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... spring . Say , father Thames , for thou hast seen ° Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet ...
... spring . Say , father Thames , for thou hast seen ° Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet ...
Page 17
... springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow , Drink life and fragrance as they flow . Now the rich stream of music winds along , Deep , majestic , smooth , and strong , Through verdant ...
... springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take : The laughing flowers that round them blow , Drink life and fragrance as they flow . Now the rich stream of music winds along , Deep , majestic , smooth , and strong , Through verdant ...
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... spring he would return Ah ! what means yon violet flower ! And the bud that decks the thorn ! ' Twas the lark that upward sprung ! ' Twas the nightingale that sung ! Idle notes ! untimely green ! Why this unavailing haste ? Western ...
... spring he would return Ah ! what means yon violet flower ! And the bud that decks the thorn ! ' Twas the lark that upward sprung ! ' Twas the nightingale that sung ! Idle notes ! untimely green ! Why this unavailing haste ? Western ...
Page 47
... spring : Till April starts , and calls around The sleeping fragrance from the ground ; And lightly o'er the living scene Scatters his freshest , tenderest green . New - born flocks , in rustic dance , Frisking ply their feeble feet ...
... spring : Till April starts , and calls around The sleeping fragrance from the ground ; And lightly o'er the living scene Scatters his freshest , tenderest green . New - born flocks , in rustic dance , Frisking ply their feeble feet ...
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... springs , By reason's 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 ...
... springs , By reason's 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 ...
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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