The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Darley to HeaneyJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 476 pages |
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... Strange stars amid the gloam III Yet portion of that unknown plain Will Hodge for ever be ; His homely Northern breast and brain Grow to some Southern tree , And strange - eyed constellations reign His stars eternally . To Lizbie Browne ...
... Strange stars amid the gloam III Yet portion of that unknown plain Will Hodge for ever be ; His homely Northern breast and brain Grow to some Southern tree , And strange - eyed constellations reign His stars eternally . To Lizbie Browne ...
Page 259
... strange it was to see him look So wistfully at the day , And strange it was to think that he Had such a debt to pay . For oak and elm have pleasant leaves That in the spring - time shoot ; But grim to see is the gallows - tree , With ...
... strange it was to see him look So wistfully at the day , And strange it was to think that he Had such a debt to pay . For oak and elm have pleasant leaves That in the spring - time shoot ; But grim to see is the gallows - tree , With ...
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... Strange Meeting It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel , long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined . Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned , Too fast in thought or death to be ...
... Strange Meeting It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel , long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined . Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned , Too fast in thought or death to be ...
Contents
GEORGE DARLEY 17951846 | 1 |
The Wife ALost | 31 |
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 18031849 | 40 |
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