The Times Book of English VerseEdward Leeson |
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Page 212
... fruit , urged me so keen . About the mossy trunk I wound me soon ; For , high from ground , the branches would require Thy utmost reach or Adam's . Round the tree All other beasts that saw , with like desire Longing and envying stood ...
... fruit , urged me so keen . About the mossy trunk I wound me soon ; For , high from ground , the branches would require Thy utmost reach or Adam's . Round the tree All other beasts that saw , with like desire Longing and envying stood ...
Page 213
... fruit , our doom is , we shall die ! How dies the serpent ? he hath eaten and lives , 760 And knows , and speaks , and reasons , and discerns , 765 Irrational till then . For us alone 710 Was death invented ? or to us denied So ye shall ...
... fruit , our doom is , we shall die ! How dies the serpent ? he hath eaten and lives , 760 And knows , and speaks , and reasons , and discerns , 765 Irrational till then . For us alone 710 Was death invented ? or to us denied So ye shall ...
Page 581
... fruit - merchant men . Till Lizzie urged , ' O Laura , come ; 235 It never saw the sun , It never felt the trickling moisture run : While with sunk eyes and faded mouth She dreamed of melons , as a traveller sees False waves in desert ...
... fruit - merchant men . Till Lizzie urged , ' O Laura , come ; 235 It never saw the sun , It never felt the trickling moisture run : While with sunk eyes and faded mouth She dreamed of melons , as a traveller sees False waves in desert ...
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