Selected Poetry and ProseMelbourne University Press, 1948 - 149 pages |
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Page 77
... fruit , and flower , Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile Earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming - on Of grateful Evening mild ; then silent Night , With this her solemn bird and this fair Moon , And these the gems of ...
... fruit , and flower , Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile Earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming - on Of grateful Evening mild ; then silent Night , With this her solemn bird and this fair Moon , And these the gems of ...
Page 99
... fruit . Goddess humane , reach then , and freely taste . ' . . . So saying , her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit , she plucked , she eat : Earth felt the wound , and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works ...
... fruit . Goddess humane , reach then , and freely taste . ' . . . So saying , her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit , she plucked , she eat : Earth felt the wound , and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works ...
Page 100
... fruit she never tasted , whether true Or fancied so , through expectation high Of knowledge ; nor was Godhead from her thought . Greedily she engorged without restraint , And knew not eating death : satiate at length , And heightened as ...
... fruit she never tasted , whether true Or fancied so , through expectation high Of knowledge ; nor was Godhead from her thought . Greedily she engorged without restraint , And knew not eating death : satiate at length , And heightened as ...
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