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... hold a plea , Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O , how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days , When rocks impregnable are not so stout , Nor gates of steel so strong , but Time ...
... hold a plea , Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O , how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days , When rocks impregnable are not so stout , Nor gates of steel so strong , but Time ...
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... holds lasting strife , If sorrow's death is but new sorrow's birth ; If this vain world be but a sable stage Where slave - born man plays to the scoffing stars ; If youth be tossed with love , with weakness age , If knowledge serve to hold ...
... holds lasting strife , If sorrow's death is but new sorrow's birth ; If this vain world be but a sable stage Where slave - born man plays to the scoffing stars ; If youth be tossed with love , with weakness age , If knowledge serve to hold ...
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... sacred fellowship restore ; When , freed from earth , unlimited its powers , Mind shall with mind direct communion hold , And kindred spirits meet to part no more . HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS . 1762-1827 . TO HOPE . Q ENGLISH SONNETS . 87.
... sacred fellowship restore ; When , freed from earth , unlimited its powers , Mind shall with mind direct communion hold , And kindred spirits meet to part no more . HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS . 1762-1827 . TO HOPE . Q ENGLISH SONNETS . 87.
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beauty behold bird breath bright charm dark DAVID GRAY dear death delight divine dost doth dream earth EDMUND SPENSER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English Sonnets eternal eyes fade fair Faith fame fear feel flowers friends glory grace grief happy HARTLEY COLERIDGE hast hath heart heaven heavenly HEMANS HENRY CONSTABLE honour hope JOHN KEATS JOHN KEBLE JOHN MILTON JULIAN FANE Lady language light live look Lord love thee Love's Massey's mind Mistress morn Muse never night o'er passion Petrarch pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry praise pray SAMUEL DANIEL Shakespeare shine sight silent sing sleep song sonnet writer sorrow soul sound SPEARE spirit SURREY sweet tears thine things THOMAS WARTON thou art thought toil verse voice weary weep WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE WILLIAM DRUMMOND WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES WILLIAM SHAKE WILLIAM WORDS Wordsworth WORTH youth