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... live! Cloth'd with far softer hues than Light can give. Thou first, best friend that Heav'n assigns below, To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know; Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm, When nature fades, and life forgets to ...
... live! Cloth'd with far softer hues than Light can give. Thou first, best friend that Heav'n assigns below, To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know; Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm, When nature fades, and life forgets to ...
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... live!" 'Twas all he gave, 'twas all he had to give. Angels, when Mercy's mandate wing'd their flight, Had stopt to catch new rapture from the sight. But hark! thro' those old firs, with sullen swell The church-clock strikes! ye tender ...
... live!" 'Twas all he gave, 'twas all he had to give. Angels, when Mercy's mandate wing'd their flight, Had stopt to catch new rapture from the sight. But hark! thro' those old firs, with sullen swell The church-clock strikes! ye tender ...
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... live, Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give. —But when the sons of peace and pleasure sleep, When only Sorrow wakes, and wakes to weep, What spells entrance my visionary mind, With sighs so sweet, with transports so refin'd? Ethereal ...
... live, Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give. —But when the sons of peace and pleasure sleep, When only Sorrow wakes, and wakes to weep, What spells entrance my visionary mind, With sighs so sweet, with transports so refin'd? Ethereal ...
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... live, and dare to die. For this young FOSCAKI, whose hapless fate [h] Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate, When exile wore his blooming years away, To sorrow's long soliloquies a prey, When reason, justice, vainly urg'd his ...
... live, and dare to die. For this young FOSCAKI, whose hapless fate [h] Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate, When exile wore his blooming years away, To sorrow's long soliloquies a prey, When reason, justice, vainly urg'd his ...
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... lives! Still the fond lover views the absent maid; And the lost friend still lingers in his shade! Say why the pensive widow loves to weep, [m] When on her knee she rocks her babe to sleep: Tremblingly still, she lifts his veil to trace ...
... lives! Still the fond lover views the absent maid; And the lost friend still lingers in his shade! Say why the pensive widow loves to weep, [m] When on her knee she rocks her babe to sleep: Tremblingly still, she lifts his veil to trace ...
Contents
NOTES ON THE SECOND PART | |
NOTES | |
Dolce sentier | |
THE SAILOR | |
ON ASLEEP | |
ADDITIONAL NOTES | |
ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST PART | |
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