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... wish one looks and lingers ; One breaks the glass , and cuts his fingers ; But they whom Truth and Wisdom lead , Can gather honey from a weed . VERSES 30 35 35 SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK , DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE ON ...
... wish one looks and lingers ; One breaks the glass , and cuts his fingers ; But they whom Truth and Wisdom lead , Can gather honey from a weed . VERSES 30 35 35 SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK , DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE ON ...
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... wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend , Though a friend I am never to see . 89 88888 35 40 VI How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight , The tempest itself lags behind , And the ...
... wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend , Though a friend I am never to see . 89 88888 35 40 VI How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight , The tempest itself lags behind , And the ...
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... wish ' twould come . ( As who knows but perhaps it may ? ) A little nearer home . II Yon roaring boys , who rave and fight On t'other side the Atlantic , I always held them in the right , But most so when most frantic . III When lawless ...
... wish ' twould come . ( As who knows but perhaps it may ? ) A little nearer home . II Yon roaring boys , who rave and fight On t'other side the Atlantic , I always held them in the right , But most so when most frantic . III When lawless ...
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... wish we patriots had Such strings for all who need ' em What ! hang a man for going mad ! Then farewell British freedom . 15 20 20 REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest ...
... wish we patriots had Such strings for all who need ' em What ! hang a man for going mad ! Then farewell British freedom . 15 20 20 REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest ...
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Thomas Gray. Could those few pleasant days again appear , - 80 Might one wish bring them , would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart the dear delight Seems so to be desired , perhaps I might.- what here we call our life is such ...
Thomas Gray. Could those few pleasant days again appear , - 80 Might one wish bring them , would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart the dear delight Seems so to be desired , perhaps I might.- what here we call our life is such ...
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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