Anthology of the World's Best Poems, Volume 3W. H. Wise, 1948 - 3198 pages |
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... hills ( For earth hath this variety from Heaven , Of pleasure situate in hill and dale ) Light as the lightning - glimpse they ran , they flew : From their foundations loosening to and fro , They plucked the seated hills , with all ...
... hills ( For earth hath this variety from Heaven , Of pleasure situate in hill and dale ) Light as the lightning - glimpse they ran , they flew : From their foundations loosening to and fro , They plucked the seated hills , with all ...
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SIR JOHN DENHAM IRELAND , 1615-1669 The Thames FROM " COOPER'S HILL " " Cooper's Hill " is the poem by which Denham is remem- bered . It was extravagantly praised by Samuel Johnson as the first example in English of a poem devoted to ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM IRELAND , 1615-1669 The Thames FROM " COOPER'S HILL " " Cooper's Hill " is the poem by which Denham is remem- bered . It was extravagantly praised by Samuel Johnson as the first example in English of a poem devoted to ...
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... hill , a gentle hill , Green and of a mild declivity , the last As ' twere the cape of a long ridge of such , Save that there was no sea to lave its base , But a most living landscape , and the wave Of woods and cornfields , and the ...
... hill , a gentle hill , Green and of a mild declivity , the last As ' twere the cape of a long ridge of such , Save that there was no sea to lave its base , But a most living landscape , and the wave Of woods and cornfields , and the ...
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