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 the sons of wealth divide , And e'en the bare - worn common is denied . If to the city sped - What waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury , and thin ...
... fields the sons of wealth divide , And e'en the bare - worn common is denied . If to the city sped - What waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury , and thin ...
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... fields ; But huge and mighty Forms that do not live Like living men mov'd slowly through my mind By day and were the trouble of my dreams . Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the Eternity of Thought ! That giv'st to ...
... fields ; But huge and mighty Forms that do not live Like living men mov'd slowly through my mind By day and were the trouble of my dreams . Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the Eternity of Thought ! That giv'st to ...
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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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