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Download or read book Complete Poetical Works written by Amy Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the works of American poet Amy Lowell.

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Download or read book Collected Poetical Works written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by . This book was released on 1924* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works written by Samuel T Coleridge and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IV In sighs their sickly breath was spent; each gleam Of Hope had ceas'd the long long day to cheer; Or if delusive, in some flitting dream, It gave them to their friends and children dear— Awaked by lordly Insult's sound 15 To all the doubled horrors round, Oft shrunk they from Oppression's band While Anguish rais'd the desperate hand For silent death; or lost the mind's controll, Thro' every burning vein would tides of Frenzy roll. 20 V But cease, ye pitying bosoms, cease to bleed! Such scenes no more demand the tear humane; I see, I see! glad Liberty succeed With every patriot virtue in her train! And mark yon peasant's raptur'd eyes; 25 Secure he views his harvests rise; No fetter vile the mind shall know, And Eloquence shall fearless glow. Yes! Liberty the soul of Life shall reign, Shall throb in every pulse, shall flow thro' every vein! 30

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley V1 written by John Keats and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.

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