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That broken fountain running o ' er With the same ring , like silver bells . She
listen ' d to its babbling flow , And said , “ Perhaps the gossip tells Some fountain -
nymph ' s love - story now ! " And as her laugh rang clear and wild , A youth _ a ...
That broken fountain running o ' er With the same ring , like silver bells . She
listen ' d to its babbling flow , And said , “ Perhaps the gossip tells Some fountain -
nymph ' s love - story now ! " And as her laugh rang clear and wild , A youth _ a ...
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A menial stood By the Egyptian sphinx ; and when I came And pray ' d to sing
beneath the balcony A song of love for a fair lady ' s ear , He insolently bade me
to begone . Listening not , I swept my fingers o ' er The strings in prelude , when
the ...
A menial stood By the Egyptian sphinx ; and when I came And pray ' d to sing
beneath the balcony A song of love for a fair lady ' s ear , He insolently bade me
to begone . Listening not , I swept my fingers o ' er The strings in prelude , when
the ...
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Into his face , and o ' er the threshold flew ; And , threading rapidly the lofty rooms
, Sought vainly for his master . Suddenly A wing rushed o ' er me , and a radiant
girl , Young as myself , but fairer than the dream Of my most wild imagining ...
Into his face , and o ' er the threshold flew ; And , threading rapidly the lofty rooms
, Sought vainly for his master . Suddenly A wing rushed o ' er me , and a radiant
girl , Young as myself , but fairer than the dream Of my most wild imagining ...
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I thought of thee , I thought of thee , In the Ionian Isles — when straying With wise
Ulysses by the seaOld Homer ' s songs around me playing ; Or , watching the
bewitched caique , That o ' er the star - lit waters flew , I listened to the helmsman
...
I thought of thee , I thought of thee , In the Ionian Isles — when straying With wise
Ulysses by the seaOld Homer ' s songs around me playing ; Or , watching the
bewitched caique , That o ' er the star - lit waters flew , I listened to the helmsman
...
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The blood beat not as wont within his veins ; Dimness crept o ' er his eye ; a
drowsy sloth Fetter ' d his limbs like palsy , and his mien With all its loftiness ,
seemed struck with eld . Even his voice was changed — a languid moan Taking
the ...
The blood beat not as wont within his veins ; Dimness crept o ' er his eye ; a
drowsy sloth Fetter ' d his limbs like palsy , and his mien With all its loftiness ,
seemed struck with eld . Even his voice was changed — a languid moan Taking
the ...
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| Заглавие | Melanie and Other Poems |
| Автор | Nathaniel Parker Willis |
| Издание | 2 |
| Издател | Saunders and Otley, 1837 |
| Оригиналът е от | Нюйоркската обществена библиотека |
| Цифровизирана на | 11 Дек 2006 |
| Брой страници | 242 страници |
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