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" ... the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents; what's your praise, When Philomel her voice shall raise? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins... "
Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives of Or ... - Page 215
by Rowland Freeman - 1821
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The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts, Volumes 1-2

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...When Philomel her voice doth raise ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In sweetness of her looks and mind, By virtue first, then choice, a queen, Tell...were not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? Sir //. Wotton. STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR NAPLES. sun is warm, the sky is clear, 1 The waves...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own? What are you, when the rose is blown ? So, when my...first, then choice, a Queen ! Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? THE HAPPY LIFE. HOW happy is he bom and taught, That serveth...
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The Courtly Poets from Raleigh to Montrose

Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - English poetry - 1870 - 322 pages
...&c., Aberdeen, 1682 (third edition), No. LIV. There are additional verses in several of these copies. So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty...choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind ? HW VIII. TEARS AT THE GRAVE OF SIR ALBERTUS MORTON, WHO WAS BURIED...
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A Household Book of English Poetry, Issue 160

1870 - 462 pages
...passions understood By your weak accents,—what's your praise, When Philomel her voice doth raise ? 15 So when my Mistress shall be seen In form and beauty...choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind ? 20 LORD STRAFFORDS MEDITATIONS IN THE TOWER. Go, empty joys, With...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, Аз if the spring were all your own, — entle words that mother would give To fit me to die,...told me that shame would never betide With Truth for — 1 Tell me, if she were not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind 1 SIR HENRY WOTTON. A VISION...
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1871 - 366 pages
...When Philomel her voice shall raise ? So when my mistress shall be seen In sweetness of her looks, and mind ; By virtue first, then choice a queen ; Tell me if she was not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind f Translate the following passage into Greek Verse...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, — o darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a sole lier mind : By virtue tirst, then choice, a ¡jueen, — Tell me, if she were not designed Th' eclipse...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were ali your own, — writes a libel, or who copies out ; That fop whose... "? 1873 Ford"1 Bryant William Cullen" William Cullen Bryant( ? SIR HENRY WOTTON. A VISION OF BEAUTY. IT was a beauty that I saw, — So pure, so perfect, as the...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...voices understood By your weak accents, — what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise ? So when my mistress shall be seen, In form and beauty...virtue first, then choice, a queen, Tell me if she was not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind. S1R HENRY WOTTON. THOU HAST SWORN BY THY GOD, MY...
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Lyrics of love, from Shakespeare to Tennyson, selected and ..., Issue 651

Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...When Philomel her voice doth raise ? So when my mistress shall be seen In sweetness of her looks and mind, By virtue first, then choice, a queen, Tell...were not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? Sir Henry Wot ton. XCIX. LOVES PRAISES. PEARLS AND RUBIES. SOME asked me where the rubies grew ;...
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