The Oxford Library of English Poetry, Volume 1John Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 443 pages |
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... seemed worth putting in . Again , to stay with the eighteenth century for a moment , Mark Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination ( 1744 ) is a rambling , musing , introspective poem in blank verse , much preoccupied ( as in the extract ...
... seemed worth putting in . Again , to stay with the eighteenth century for a moment , Mark Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination ( 1744 ) is a rambling , musing , introspective poem in blank verse , much preoccupied ( as in the extract ...
Page 286
... seemed A refuge from those wounds . Or when we lay Chained on the burning lake ? That sure was worse . What if the breath that kindled those grim fires Awaked should blow them into sevenfold rage And plunge us in the flames ? Or from ...
... seemed A refuge from those wounds . Or when we lay Chained on the burning lake ? That sure was worse . What if the breath that kindled those grim fires Awaked should blow them into sevenfold rage And plunge us in the flames ? Or from ...
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... seemed Alone th ' antagonist of Heav'n , nor less Than hell's dread emperor , with pomp supreme And god - like imitated state ; him round A globe of fiery Seraphim enclosed With bright emblazonry and horrent arms . Then of their session ...
... seemed Alone th ' antagonist of Heav'n , nor less Than hell's dread emperor , with pomp supreme And god - like imitated state ; him round A globe of fiery Seraphim enclosed With bright emblazonry and horrent arms . Then of their session ...
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EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 1 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
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Alan a Dale angel arms ASTROPHEL AND STELLA beauty behold blessed blood breast breath bright Cæsar crown dark dead dear death deep delight doth dreadful earth eccho ring English poetry eyes face fair fear fire flames flowers fools gentle glory gold grace Greensleeves grief hand happy hast hath haue head hear heart heav'n hell Himen honour king kiss Lady light limbeck lips live look lord loue love's Lycidas mind Momus nature neuer never night Nymphes o'er pain peace pity pleasure poison'd praise rage rest Robin Hood sigh sight sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep song sorrow soul speak spirits stand stay stood sweet Sycorax tears tell thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought thyself unto Vpon W. H. Auden weep wind wings youth