Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 2Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... thine , ' is very spirited , and , along with the opening lines , proves Grainger a poet . " - Gilfillan's Less - known British Poets , " vol . iii . See Allibone's Crit . Dict . Eng . Lit. " 66 " L JAMES MERRICK . " James Merrick ...
... thine , ' is very spirited , and , along with the opening lines , proves Grainger a poet . " - Gilfillan's Less - known British Poets , " vol . iii . See Allibone's Crit . Dict . Eng . Lit. " 66 " L JAMES MERRICK . " James Merrick ...
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... thine to snatch some powerful arm , First to advance , then screen from future harm ? Am I returned from death to live in pain ? Or would imperial pity save in vain ? Distrust it not . What blame can mercy find , Which gives at once a ...
... thine to snatch some powerful arm , First to advance , then screen from future harm ? Am I returned from death to live in pain ? Or would imperial pity save in vain ? Distrust it not . What blame can mercy find , Which gives at once a ...
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... thine . See yonder hallow'd fane ; -the pious work Of names once famed , now dubious or forgot , And buried ' midst the wreck of things which were ; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead . The wind is up : hark ! how it howls ...
... thine . See yonder hallow'd fane ; -the pious work Of names once famed , now dubious or forgot , And buried ' midst the wreck of things which were ; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead . The wind is up : hark ! how it howls ...
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... thine own eternal praise ; A song so vast , a theme so high , Call for the voice that tuned the sky . Dr. Watts . - Born 1674 , Died 1748 . 855. - NIGHT . These thoughts , O Night ! are thine ; From thee they came like lovers ' secret ...
... thine own eternal praise ; A song so vast , a theme so high , Call for the voice that tuned the sky . Dr. Watts . - Born 1674 , Died 1748 . 855. - NIGHT . These thoughts , O Night ! are thine ; From thee they came like lovers ' secret ...
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... thine . For , lo conducted by the laughing Loves , This cool retreat his Musidora sought : Warm in her cheek the sultry season glow'd ; And , robed in loose array , she came to bathe Her fervent limbs in the refreshing stream . What ...
... thine . For , lo conducted by the laughing Loves , This cool retreat his Musidora sought : Warm in her cheek the sultry season glow'd ; And , robed in loose array , she came to bathe Her fervent limbs in the refreshing stream . What ...
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