The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Darley to HeaneyJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 476 pages |
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... FAIR maid , had I not heard thy baby cries , Nor seen thy girlish , sweet vicissitude , Thy mazy motions , striving to elude , Yet wooing still a parent's watchful eyes , Thy humours , many as the opal's dyes , And lovely all ...
... FAIR maid , had I not heard thy baby cries , Nor seen thy girlish , sweet vicissitude , Thy mazy motions , striving to elude , Yet wooing still a parent's watchful eyes , Thy humours , many as the opal's dyes , And lovely all ...
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... fair , Too fresh and fair in our sad world's best bloom , To be the ghost of one who bore your name About these meadows , twenty years ago . ' ' Have you not heard ? ' said Katie , ' we came back . We bought the farm we tenanted before ...
... fair , Too fresh and fair in our sad world's best bloom , To be the ghost of one who bore your name About these meadows , twenty years ago . ' ' Have you not heard ? ' said Katie , ' we came back . We bought the farm we tenanted before ...
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... fair hour in the then fair weather , And the cave just under , with a voice still so hollow That it seems to call out to me from forty years ago , When you were all aglow , And not the thin ghost that I now frailly follow ! Ignorant of ...
... fair hour in the then fair weather , And the cave just under , with a voice still so hollow That it seems to call out to me from forty years ago , When you were all aglow , And not the thin ghost that I now frailly follow ! Ignorant of ...
Contents
GEORGE DARLEY 17951846 | 1 |
The Wife ALost | 31 |
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 18031849 | 40 |
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