The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: From the Original Editions...Chatto & Windus, 1875 |
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... sweet lips were wont to drink The liquor doctors rail at - and which I Will quaff in spite of them — and when we die We'll toss up who died first of drinking tea , And cry out , -heads or tails ? where'er we be . Near that a dusty paint ...
... sweet lips were wont to drink The liquor doctors rail at - and which I Will quaff in spite of them — and when we die We'll toss up who died first of drinking tea , And cry out , -heads or tails ? where'er we be . Near that a dusty paint ...
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... sweet oracle , Turn'd to the sad enchantress once again , And sought a respite from my gentle pain , In acting every passage o'er and o'er Of our communion . - How on the sea shore We watch'd the ocean and the sky together , Under the ...
... sweet oracle , Turn'd to the sad enchantress once again , And sought a respite from my gentle pain , In acting every passage o'er and o'er Of our communion . - How on the sea shore We watch'd the ocean and the sky together , Under the ...
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... sweet by distance ; -and a bird Which cannot be a nightingale , and yet I know none else that sings so sweet as it At this late hour ; -and then all is still : - Now Italy or London , which you will ! Next winter you must pass with me ...
... sweet by distance ; -and a bird Which cannot be a nightingale , and yet I know none else that sings so sweet as it At this late hour ; -and then all is still : - Now Italy or London , which you will ! Next winter you must pass with me ...
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... Sweet meeting by sad parting to renew " To - morrow to fresh woods and pastures new . " THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE . WIFT as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good , the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour , and the mask ...
... Sweet meeting by sad parting to renew " To - morrow to fresh woods and pastures new . " THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE . WIFT as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good , the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour , and the mask ...
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... Sweet talk in music through the enamour'd air , And then a vision on my brain was roll'd . As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay , This was the tenour of my waking dream : — Methought I sate beside a public way Thick strewn with ...
... Sweet talk in music through the enamour'd air , And then a vision on my brain was roll'd . As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay , This was the tenour of my waking dream : — Methought I sate beside a public way Thick strewn with ...
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