The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... pleasure , all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall . As some fair female unadorned and plain , Secure to please while youth confirms her reign , Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies , Nor shares with art the triumph of ...
... pleasure , all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall . As some fair female unadorned and plain , Secure to please while youth confirms her reign , Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies , Nor shares with art the triumph of ...
Page 164
... pleasure passed , Hung round their bowers , and fondly looked their last , And took a long farewell , and wished in vain For seats like these beyond the western main ; And shudd'ring still to face the distant deep , Returned and wept ...
... pleasure passed , Hung round their bowers , and fondly looked their last , And took a long farewell , and wished in vain For seats like these beyond the western main ; And shudd'ring still to face the distant deep , Returned and wept ...
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... pleasure Floated midway on the waves ; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves . It was a miracle of rare device , A sunny pleasure - dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ...
... pleasure Floated midway on the waves ; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves . It was a miracle of rare device , A sunny pleasure - dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ...
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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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