The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... dark domain , Is sunshine , to the colour of my fate . Night , sable goddess ! from her ebon throne , In rayless majesty , now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world : Silence , how dead ! and darkness , how profound ...
... dark domain , Is sunshine , to the colour of my fate . Night , sable goddess ! from her ebon throne , In rayless majesty , now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world : Silence , how dead ! and darkness , how profound ...
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... dark forests dwells : How they , whose sight such dreary dreams engross , With their own visions oft astonished droop , When o'er the wat'ry strath or quaggy moss They see the gliding ghosts unbodied troop . Or if in sports , or on the ...
... dark forests dwells : How they , whose sight such dreary dreams engross , With their own visions oft astonished droop , When o'er the wat'ry strath or quaggy moss They see the gliding ghosts unbodied troop . Or if in sports , or on the ...
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... darkness , death and darkness . ' Even here , into my centre of repose , ' The shady visions come to domineer ... dark Sweet - shaped lightnings from the nadir deep Up to the zenith , -hieroglyphics old Which sages and keen - eyed ...
... darkness , death and darkness . ' Even here , into my centre of repose , ' The shady visions come to domineer ... dark Sweet - shaped lightnings from the nadir deep Up to the zenith , -hieroglyphics old Which sages and keen - eyed ...
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CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL Of Dorset 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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