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... winds of doctrine and the gusts of sentiment , the old tunes are heard . With reference to the life and thought of today , many of our poets may be called reflectors and interpreters . I have given some biographical detail , because it ...
... winds of doctrine and the gusts of sentiment , the old tunes are heard . With reference to the life and thought of today , many of our poets may be called reflectors and interpreters . I have given some biographical detail , because it ...
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... winds blc w , And the unchanging meadows are : From faded hopes and hopes agleam , It calls you , calls you night and day Beyond the dark into the dream Over the hills and far away . In temperament Henley was an Elizabethan . Ben Jonson ...
... winds blc w , And the unchanging meadows are : From faded hopes and hopes agleam , It calls you , calls you night and day Beyond the dark into the dream Over the hills and far away . In temperament Henley was an Elizabethan . Ben Jonson ...
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... wind spills its sighs , Nor any take the secrets of its meaning . O Lily of the King ! I speak a heavy thing , O patience , most sorrowful of daughters ! Lo , the hour is at hand for the troubling of the land , And red shall be the ...
... wind spills its sighs , Nor any take the secrets of its meaning . O Lily of the King ! I speak a heavy thing , O patience , most sorrowful of daughters ! Lo , the hour is at hand for the troubling of the land , And red shall be the ...
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... winds shake , And sigh with joy the odours of its meaning . O Lily of the King , remember then the thing That this dead mouth sang ; and thy daughters , As they dance before His way , sing there on the Day , What I sang when the Night ...
... winds shake , And sigh with joy the odours of its meaning . O Lily of the King , remember then the thing That this dead mouth sang ; and thy daughters , As they dance before His way , sing there on the Day , What I sang when the Night ...
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... wind - warped upland thorn , will a gazer think , " To him this must have been a familiar sight " ? If I pass during some nocturnal blackness , mothy and warm , When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn , Will they say , " He ...
... wind - warped upland thorn , will a gazer think , " To him this must have been a familiar sight " ? If I pass during some nocturnal blackness , mothy and warm , When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn , Will they say , " He ...
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