The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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Page 81
... live my own , and die so too ! ( To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease , And see what friends , and read what books I please : Above a patron , though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my ...
... live my own , and die so too ! ( To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease , And see what friends , and read what books I please : Above a patron , though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my ...
Page 267
... live the life they lived , But ' tis a long time to look back , my Son , And see so little gain from threescore years . These fields were burthened when they came to me ; Till I was forty years of age , not more Than half of my ...
... live the life they lived , But ' tis a long time to look back , my Son , And see so little gain from threescore years . These fields were burthened when they came to me ; Till I was forty years of age , not more Than half of my ...
Page 483
... live on high , and then On the earth ye live again ; And the souls ye left behind you Teach us , here the way to find you , Where your other souls are joying , Never slumber'd , never cloying . Here , your earth - born souls still speak ...
... live on high , and then On the earth ye live again ; And the souls ye left behind you Teach us , here the way to find you , Where your other souls are joying , Never slumber'd , never cloying . Here , your earth - born souls still speak ...
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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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