The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... waves on waves , and gulfs on gulfs , O'ercame the pilot's art . Yet then from all my griefs , O Lord , Thy mercy set me free ; Whilst , in the confidence of prayer , My soul took hold on Thee . For though in dreadful whirls we hung ...
... waves on waves , and gulfs on gulfs , O'ercame the pilot's art . Yet then from all my griefs , O Lord , Thy mercy set me free ; Whilst , in the confidence of prayer , My soul took hold on Thee . For though in dreadful whirls we hung ...
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... waves . Oft in her glass the musing shepherd spies The headlong mountains and the downward skies , The watery landskip of the pendant woods , And absent trees that tremble in the floods ; In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen ...
... waves . Oft in her glass the musing shepherd spies The headlong mountains and the downward skies , The watery landskip of the pendant woods , And absent trees that tremble in the floods ; In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen ...
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... waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar . Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee— Assyria , Greece , Rome , Carthage , what are they ? Thy waters washed them power while they were free , And many a ...
... waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar . Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee— Assyria , Greece , Rome , Carthage , what are they ? Thy waters washed them power while they were free , And many a ...
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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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