American PoetryPercy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster C. Scribner's sons, 1918 - 721 pages |
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... Sail with ease O're all His Works that Sublunary be , He cast a Saphire Glittering Canopy , Thunder and Lightning , Rain and painted Bow The spangling Stars , nay glaring Comets too Adore the Ample Theater below . 23 The Jarring Lovers ...
... Sail with ease O're all His Works that Sublunary be , He cast a Saphire Glittering Canopy , Thunder and Lightning , Rain and painted Bow The spangling Stars , nay glaring Comets too Adore the Ample Theater below . 23 The Jarring Lovers ...
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... sailing up the Skies , Hoarse Whirlwinds thunder o'er the dis- tant Deep , And the white foaming Waves majestick sweep , Up to the Skies the Shat'red Ship is tost , Then down the bottomless Abyss is lost . APRIL In Clouds array'd now ...
... sailing up the Skies , Hoarse Whirlwinds thunder o'er the dis- tant Deep , And the white foaming Waves majestick sweep , Up to the Skies the Shat'red Ship is tost , Then down the bottomless Abyss is lost . APRIL In Clouds array'd now ...
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... sail , And spite of all their little Arts prevail ; Fam'd Architects all perish in the Doom , Who rear'd by Rules exact the curious Comb ; Statesmen and Gen'rals undistinguish'd lie , And Monarchs and their Slaves promiscu- ous die ...
... sail , And spite of all their little Arts prevail ; Fam'd Architects all perish in the Doom , Who rear'd by Rules exact the curious Comb ; Statesmen and Gen'rals undistinguish'd lie , And Monarchs and their Slaves promiscu- ous die ...
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... sailing through the dark- en'd air , Whet their keen talons , and their beaks prepare , O'er warring armies wait th ' approaching fray , And state their wishes on the future prey ; Each cens'rer thus the tempting lure pur- sues , And ...
... sailing through the dark- en'd air , Whet their keen talons , and their beaks prepare , O'er warring armies wait th ' approaching fray , And state their wishes on the future prey ; Each cens'rer thus the tempting lure pur- sues , And ...
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... sail , They swung him , like a keg of ale , Till to the pinnacle in height He vaulted , like balloon or kite . As Socrates of old at first did To aid philosophy get hoisted , And found his thoughts flow strangely clear , Swung in a ...
... sail , They swung him , like a keg of ale , Till to the pinnacle in height He vaulted , like balloon or kite . As Socrates of old at first did To aid philosophy get hoisted , And found his thoughts flow strangely clear , Swung in a ...
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