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... fancy , I can see thee young and fair , In jewell'd splendour mocking age's crutch , And whirling in the mazes of the night . What rivals once had barter'd half their gains And all their sleep for thy conceded kiss ! Do those old lips ...
... fancy , I can see thee young and fair , In jewell'd splendour mocking age's crutch , And whirling in the mazes of the night . What rivals once had barter'd half their gains And all their sleep for thy conceded kiss ! Do those old lips ...
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... gather calm from CATHCART's sacred Hill , And wear the sovereign grief that hides its throbs , With wet - pressed fingers on the lips of pain . In fancy I have listen'd to your moans : They Consolation . 53 33 CONSOLATION,
... gather calm from CATHCART's sacred Hill , And wear the sovereign grief that hides its throbs , With wet - pressed fingers on the lips of pain . In fancy I have listen'd to your moans : They Consolation . 53 33 CONSOLATION,
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And Other Poems James Hedderwick. In fancy I have listen'd to your moans : They who had thrill'd you with their meeting cheers Rest far away , beyond your reach of tears ! What public gain for your great woe atones ? Yet towers our ...
And Other Poems James Hedderwick. In fancy I have listen'd to your moans : They who had thrill'd you with their meeting cheers Rest far away , beyond your reach of tears ! What public gain for your great woe atones ? Yet towers our ...
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... Fancy and wit Are dull'd and mudded at their finer fount . Yet through a dreary waste of days o'erworn , Sighing of frailest things to swell the amount , How many souls , in light of music born , Sing to themselves , for other joy unfit ...
... Fancy and wit Are dull'd and mudded at their finer fount . Yet through a dreary waste of days o'erworn , Sighing of frailest things to swell the amount , How many souls , in light of music born , Sing to themselves , for other joy unfit ...
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... fancy life a vulgar feast ; That love's romance lives but in old renown , And in the passionate tales by poets told . Great ALEXANDER conquer'd half the earth , Yet died in Too much we Marvel .. 65 Too MUCH WE MARVEL,
... fancy life a vulgar feast ; That love's romance lives but in old renown , And in the passionate tales by poets told . Great ALEXANDER conquer'd half the earth , Yet died in Too much we Marvel .. 65 Too MUCH WE MARVEL,
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