The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... fair unfolding charms . O nymph , approach ! while yet the temperate sun With bashful forehead through the cool moist air Throws his young maiden beams , And with chaste kisses woos The earth's fair bosom ; while the streaming veil Of ...
... fair unfolding charms . O nymph , approach ! while yet the temperate sun With bashful forehead through the cool moist air Throws his young maiden beams , And with chaste kisses woos The earth's fair bosom ; while the streaming veil Of ...
Page 243
... fair , They kissed her cheek and they kemed her hair , And round came many a blooming fere , Saying , ' Bonnie Kilmeny , ye're welcome here ! Women are freed of the littand scorn : O blest be the day Kilmeny was born ! Now shall the ...
... fair , They kissed her cheek and they kemed her hair , And round came many a blooming fere , Saying , ' Bonnie Kilmeny , ye're welcome here ! Women are freed of the littand scorn : O blest be the day Kilmeny was born ! Now shall the ...
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... fair , And Greta woods are gay ; I would I were with Edmund there , To reign his Queen of May ! With burnished brand and musketoon , So gallantly you come , I read you for a bold dragoon , That lists the tuck of drum . ' ' I list no ...
... fair , And Greta woods are gay ; I would I were with Edmund there , To reign his Queen of May ! With burnished brand and musketoon , So gallantly you come , I read you for a bold dragoon , That lists the tuck of drum . ' ' I list no ...
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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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