The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honey'd middle of the night , If ceremonies due they did aright ; As , supperless to bed they must retire , And couch supine their beauties , lilly white ; Nor look behind , nor sideways ...
... soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honey'd middle of the night , If ceremonies due they did aright ; As , supperless to bed they must retire , And couch supine their beauties , lilly white ; Nor look behind , nor sideways ...
Page 483
... soft delight That shadowy thought can win , A bright torch , and a casement ope at night , To let the warm Love in ! Ode BARDS of Passion and of Mirth , Ye have left your souls on earth ! Have ye souls in heaven too , Double lived in ...
... soft delight That shadowy thought can win , A bright torch , and a casement ope at night , To let the warm Love in ! Ode BARDS of Passion and of Mirth , Ye have left your souls on earth ! Have ye souls in heaven too , Double lived in ...
Page 485
... soft - dying day , And touch the stubble - plains with rosy hue ; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows , borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies ; And full - grown lambs loud bleat from ...
... soft - dying day , And touch the stubble - plains with rosy hue ; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows , borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies ; And full - grown lambs loud bleat from ...
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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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