The Poems and PlaysMethuen, 1905 - 183 pages |
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... riches gave , But towns unmann'd , and lords without a slave ; And late the nation found with fruitless skill Its former strength was but plethoric ill . 110 120 130 140 Yet still the loss of wealth is here supplied By THE TRAVELLER 5.
... riches gave , But towns unmann'd , and lords without a slave ; And late the nation found with fruitless skill Its former strength was but plethoric ill . 110 120 130 140 Yet still the loss of wealth is here supplied By THE TRAVELLER 5.
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... lord the sumptuous banquet deal , To make him loathe his vegetable meal ; But calm , and bred in ignorance and toil , Each wish contracting , fits him to the soil . Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose , Breasts the keen air ...
... lord the sumptuous banquet deal , To make him loathe his vegetable meal ; But calm , and bred in ignorance and toil , Each wish contracting , fits him to the soil . Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose , Breasts the keen air ...
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... lords of human kind pass by , Intent on high designs , a thoughtful band , - By forms unfashion'd , fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagin'd right , above control , While even the peasant ...
... lords of human kind pass by , Intent on high designs , a thoughtful band , - By forms unfashion'd , fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagin'd right , above control , While even the peasant ...
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... lords may flourish , or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroy'd , can never be supplied . A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When every ...
... lords may flourish , or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroy'd , can never be supplied . A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When every ...
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... LORD CLARE HANKS , my lord , for your venison , for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest , or smok'd in a platter ; The haunch was a picture for painters to study , The fat was so white , and the lean was so ruddy . Though my ...
... LORD CLARE HANKS , my lord , for your venison , for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest , or smok'd in a platter ; The haunch was a picture for painters to study , The fat was so white , and the lean was so ruddy . Though my ...
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