The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Darley to HeaneyJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 476 pages |
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... hope , Shall give you health , and help , and hope , My Dark Rosaleen ! Over hills , and thro ' dales , Have I roamed for your sake ; All yesterday I sailed with sails On river and on lake . The Erne , at its highest flood , I dashed ...
... hope , Shall give you health , and help , and hope , My Dark Rosaleen ! Over hills , and thro ' dales , Have I roamed for your sake ; All yesterday I sailed with sails On river and on lake . The Erne , at its highest flood , I dashed ...
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... hope , discouraged ne'er a jot , Out - soars all possible desert ; Resistance only makes him gay ; The fiercer fight the fairer she ; In vain her distance says him nay ; Hope , desperate grown , feigns certainty . The Married Lover WHY ...
... hope , discouraged ne'er a jot , Out - soars all possible desert ; Resistance only makes him gay ; The fiercer fight the fairer she ; In vain her distance says him nay ; Hope , desperate grown , feigns certainty . The Married Lover WHY ...
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John Wain. 15 Hope had grown grey hairs , Hope had mourning on , Trenched with tears , carved with cares , Hope was twelve hours gone ; And frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day Nor rescue , only rocket and lightship , shone , And ...
John Wain. 15 Hope had grown grey hairs , Hope had mourning on , Trenched with tears , carved with cares , Hope was twelve hours gone ; And frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day Nor rescue , only rocket and lightship , shone , And ...
Contents
GEORGE DARLEY 17951846 | 1 |
The Wife ALost | 31 |
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 18031849 | 40 |
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A. E. Housman A. P. Watt BEAU BROCADE beauty bells birds blow Bouillabaisse breast breath Camelot cold cried Cusha dance dark Dark Rosaleen dead dear death dream earth eyes face feet fire flowers goblin gone grass grave green grey hair hand hath head hear heard heart Heaven Jumbly King Arthur kiss Lady of Shalott land Lars Porsena laugh Laura leave light lips live Lizbie Browne Lizzie lonely look Lord moon morning never night o'er Peter Levi pray rain Reprinted by permission ring road to Mandalay rose round Setebos shadow silence sing Sir Bedivere sleep smile snow song soul stars stone strange sweet talk tears tell thee There's thing thou thought trees turn voice W. B. Yeats walk watch wave weep wild wind wonder word