The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... fields . What wonder then , a beast or subject slain Were equal crimes in a despotic reign ? Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled , But while the subject starv'd , the beast was fed . Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began , A ...
... fields . What wonder then , a beast or subject slain Were equal crimes in a despotic reign ? Both doom'd alike for sportive tyrants bled , But while the subject starv'd , the beast was fed . Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began , A ...
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... fields . Such was his first resolve ; he thought again , And his heart failed him . ' Isabel , ' said he , Two evenings after he had heard the news , ' I have been toiling more than seventy years , And in the open sunshine of God's love ...
... fields . Such was his first resolve ; he thought again , And his heart failed him . ' Isabel , ' said he , Two evenings after he had heard the news , ' I have been toiling more than seventy years , And in the open sunshine of God's love ...
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... field's dreadful array Far , far I had roamed on a desolate track : ' Twas autumn , —and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers , that welcomed me back . I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning ...
... field's dreadful array Far , far I had roamed on a desolate track : ' Twas autumn , —and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers , that welcomed me back . I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning ...
Contents
CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL Of Dorset 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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