The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... earth , and fire , and air ; But the unnatural balsams merely blight What nature made him at his birth , as bare As the mere million's base unmummied clay— Yet all his spices but prolong decay . XII He's dead and upper earth with him ...
... earth , and fire , and air ; But the unnatural balsams merely blight What nature made him at his birth , as bare As the mere million's base unmummied clay— Yet all his spices but prolong decay . XII He's dead and upper earth with him ...
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... earth is not ; Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless , tranced thing , But divine melodious truth ; Philosophic numbers smooth ; Tales and golden histories Of heaven and its mysteries . Thus ye live on high , and then On the earth ...
... earth is not ; Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless , tranced thing , But divine melodious truth ; Philosophic numbers smooth ; Tales and golden histories Of heaven and its mysteries . Thus ye live on high , and then On the earth ...
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... Earth are fairer , fairer far ' Than Chaos and blank Darkness , though once chiefs ; ' And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth ' In form and shape compact and beautiful , ' In will , in action free , companionship , ' And thousand ...
... Earth are fairer , fairer far ' Than Chaos and blank Darkness , though once chiefs ; ' And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth ' In form and shape compact and beautiful , ' In will , in action free , companionship , ' And thousand ...
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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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