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... FEAR.- SELFISH LOVE . GRIEF . But now those white , unblemished manners , whence The fabling poets took their golden age , Are found no more amid these iron times , These dregs of life ! now the distempered mind Has lost that concord of ...
... FEAR.- SELFISH LOVE . GRIEF . But now those white , unblemished manners , whence The fabling poets took their golden age , Are found no more amid these iron times , These dregs of life ! now the distempered mind Has lost that concord of ...
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... fear , and every power Roused into life and action , light in air The acquitted parents see their soaring race , And once rejoicing never know them more . THE EAGLE AND HIS YOUNG . — KILDA . High from the summit of a craggy cliff , Hung ...
... fear , and every power Roused into life and action , light in air The acquitted parents see their soaring race , And once rejoicing never know them more . THE EAGLE AND HIS YOUNG . — KILDA . High from the summit of a craggy cliff , Hung ...
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... fears Invented wild , ten thousand frantic views Of horrid rivals , hanging on the charms For which he melts in ... fear . What is the world to them , Its pomp , its pleasure , and its nonsense all , Who in each other clasp whatever ...
... fears Invented wild , ten thousand frantic views Of horrid rivals , hanging on the charms For which he melts in ... fear . What is the world to them , Its pomp , its pleasure , and its nonsense all , Who in each other clasp whatever ...
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... fear , as us befits ; On his keen nostril sharp gall ever sits . [ seat : But thou to thee the griefs of Daphnis known , And the first skill in pastoral song thine own- Come to yon elm , into whose shelter deep Afront Priapus and the ...
... fear , as us befits ; On his keen nostril sharp gall ever sits . [ seat : But thou to thee the griefs of Daphnis known , And the first skill in pastoral song thine own- Come to yon elm , into whose shelter deep Afront Priapus and the ...
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... fear , Behold their fellows tost in thinner air ; But soon they leap and catch the swimming bait , Plunge on the ... fears his dubious art ; He views the trembling fish with longing eyes While the line stretches with the unwieldy prize ...
... fear , Behold their fellows tost in thinner air ; But soon they leap and catch the swimming bait , Plunge on the ... fears his dubious art ; He views the trembling fish with longing eyes While the line stretches with the unwieldy prize ...
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arms beauty behold beneath birds bloom bosom boughs breast breath brow busk Ceres charms cheerful chyle clouds courser death deep delight dread e'en earth ELSPA Eurus fair fear fields flame flocks flood flowers forest frae fruits Gaul Georgic give glebe glow grace green Grongar Hill groves hand happy heart heaven hills labor land light live maun mind morn mountains muse MUSIDORA Naiad Nature Nature's night numbers nymphs o'er pain peace plain plant pleasure plough praise pride race rage rapture reign rich rills rise rocks round rural scene shade sheep shepherd shine shrubs sigh Silurian sing skies smile soft soil song soon soul spread spring strains stream swain sweet swelling taste tempest tender Theana thee thine thou toil trees trembling vale Virgil virtue wandering wave wild winds wings Winter woods yield youth