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... sleep ; E'en so methought my Cynthia slept but now , With weary arm soft pillowing her brow ; Reeling and flush'd with wine I seem'd to roam , ' Faint flamed the linkboy's torch that lit me home ; But yet not all distraught I view'd the ...
... sleep ; E'en so methought my Cynthia slept but now , With weary arm soft pillowing her brow ; Reeling and flush'd with wine I seem'd to roam , ' Faint flamed the linkboy's torch that lit me home ; But yet not all distraught I view'd the ...
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... sleep ! for she Starts up upon her arm , and rails at me . " When other doors are shut , and thou must roam , “ Thus is it , laggard , thou returnest home ? " Where hast thou revell'd all the night away , " While Cynthia waited till the ...
... sleep ! for she Starts up upon her arm , and rails at me . " When other doors are shut , and thou must roam , “ Thus is it , laggard , thou returnest home ? " Where hast thou revell'd all the night away , " While Cynthia waited till the ...
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... sleep to thee - no liberty allow'd , She knows , none better , how to tame the proud . How oft to me , an outcast , wilt thou go , To sob thy tale in broken words of woe ! How often wilt thou shudder midst thy tears ! How oft with ...
... sleep to thee - no liberty allow'd , She knows , none better , how to tame the proud . How oft to me , an outcast , wilt thou go , To sob thy tale in broken words of woe ! How often wilt thou shudder midst thy tears ! How oft with ...
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... sleep ? Press with those tender feet the drifting snow , And tempt the cold Fate never bade thee know ? Long may stern winter wrap the stormy skies , And sailors slumber till the Pleiads rise , Ere o'er the Etruscan main thou spread'st ...
... sleep ? Press with those tender feet the drifting snow , And tempt the cold Fate never bade thee know ? Long may stern winter wrap the stormy skies , And sailors slumber till the Pleiads rise , Ere o'er the Etruscan main thou spread'st ...
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... sleep press'd heavy on my swimming eyes , And midnight wrapp'd in calm the moonlit skies , Yet still I linger'd with ye - loth to part From the warm , whisper'd love of each young heart ! Since then ye fear'd in me no babbler rude , The ...
... sleep press'd heavy on my swimming eyes , And midnight wrapp'd in calm the moonlit skies , Yet still I linger'd with ye - loth to part From the warm , whisper'd love of each young heart ! Since then ye fear'd in me no babbler rude , The ...
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arms bade beauty beneath Bishop bliss Boötes bore Brasenose College breast brow Cæsar Callimachus Cambridge canst charm Cheltenham College Church Church of England Crown 8vo Cynthia dark death Dost E'en e'er Edward Meyrick Goulburn eyes fair fall false fame fate fear fire golden hair hear heart Heaven Henry Parry Liddon Holy John Henry Blunt Jove late Fellow Lecturer life's London Lord love's lovers lyre maid maidens mark'd Merton College methinks Muses ne'er never night nought o'er once Oxford Phoebus poor prayers Propertius roam Roman Rome Sackville College Second Edition Sermons shade shame shore shrine sing sleep Small 8vo soft song spurn stern stream tale Tarpeia tears tell thee thine thou art thou wilt throng tomb Trinity College Twas Venus wave weary weep wilt thou wine woo'd wouldst wrath yield yore
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