The Oxford Library of English Poetry, Volume 1John Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 443 pages |
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Page 163
... face the meadows green , Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy ; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face , And from the forlorn world his visage hide , Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace ...
... face the meadows green , Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy ; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face , And from the forlorn world his visage hide , Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace ...
Page 213
... face , As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain , all the good , of the elements ' strife . Have you seen but a bright lily grow , Before rude hands have touched it ? Ha ' you marked but the fall o ' the snow Before the soil ...
... face , As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain , all the good , of the elements ' strife . Have you seen but a bright lily grow , Before rude hands have touched it ? Ha ' you marked but the fall o ' the snow Before the soil ...
Page 237
... face ? WHY dost thou shade Thy lovely face ? O why Does that eclipsing hand so long deny The sunshine of Thy soul - enliv'ning eye ? Without that light , what light remains in me ? Thou art my Life , my Way , my Light ; in Thee I live ...
... face ? WHY dost thou shade Thy lovely face ? O why Does that eclipsing hand so long deny The sunshine of Thy soul - enliv'ning eye ? Without that light , what light remains in me ? Thou art my Life , my Way , my Light ; in Thee I live ...
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EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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