The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... thought From wave to wave of fancied misery , At random drove , her helm of reason lost ; Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , A bitter change ; severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ! and night Even in the ...
... thought From wave to wave of fancied misery , At random drove , her helm of reason lost ; Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , A bitter change ; severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ! and night Even in the ...
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... thought , by restless musing fed , Chill the warm cheek , and blast the bloom of life ! Neglected fortune flies ; and , sliding swift , Prone into ruin fall his scorned affairs . ' Tis nought but gloom around : the darkened sun Loses ...
... thought , by restless musing fed , Chill the warm cheek , and blast the bloom of life ! Neglected fortune flies ; and , sliding swift , Prone into ruin fall his scorned affairs . ' Tis nought but gloom around : the darkened sun Loses ...
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... Thought ! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! not in vain , By day or star - light thus from my first dawn Of Childhood didst Thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human Soul , Not with the ...
... Thought ! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! not in vain , By day or star - light thus from my first dawn Of Childhood didst Thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human Soul , Not with the ...
Contents
CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL Of Dorset 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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