City PoemsMacmillan and Company, 1857 - 190 pages |
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... head , with quick hand drew His mantle o'er his face , and turned away ' Mong the blue twilight - mists . " Sleep did not raise His heavy lids , but in a drowsy voice , Like murmur of a leafy sycamore When bees are swarming in the ...
... head , with quick hand drew His mantle o'er his face , and turned away ' Mong the blue twilight - mists . " Sleep did not raise His heavy lids , but in a drowsy voice , Like murmur of a leafy sycamore When bees are swarming in the ...
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... head , Laugh like the jovial sinner in his cups ? I vote for Winter ! Why , you know the " Crown , " The rows of pewter winking in the light , The mighty egg - flip at the sanded bar , The nine - pins , skittles , silent dominoes , The ...
... head , Laugh like the jovial sinner in his cups ? I vote for Winter ! Why , you know the " Crown , " The rows of pewter winking in the light , The mighty egg - flip at the sanded bar , The nine - pins , skittles , silent dominoes , The ...
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... head , We found it haunted by a querulous bird , Aye wheeling round and round . Gloom , like a curtain , dropped from brow to chin . We saw the tawny valley , here and there Sheaf - dotted fields ; a silent string of carts Creeping ...
... head , We found it haunted by a querulous bird , Aye wheeling round and round . Gloom , like a curtain , dropped from brow to chin . We saw the tawny valley , here and there Sheaf - dotted fields ; a silent string of carts Creeping ...
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... head , his flashing limbs Are palsied by a touch . The heavens seem To mar as wilfully their creature man , As one who limns a face , on which the world Could stand at gaze cheated of pain and time ; Then lets , before the smiling hues ...
... head , his flashing limbs Are palsied by a touch . The heavens seem To mar as wilfully their creature man , As one who limns a face , on which the world Could stand at gaze cheated of pain and time ; Then lets , before the smiling hues ...
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... head The apparition of the future light , Told me , he was in spirit hot and quick ; Weak as a flower that sways with ev'ry wind : That , like the sensitive leaf , his vanity Shrank from the slightest touch ; and that he turn'd From ...
... head The apparition of the future light , Told me , he was in spirit hot and quick ; Weak as a flower that sways with ev'ry wind : That , like the sensitive leaf , his vanity Shrank from the slightest touch ; and that he turn'd From ...
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