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A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada William Strode	His sparkling joynts (With busy descant mincing on the points) Reach back with busy touch: that done hee stayes, The bird replies, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
After Long Silence William Butler Yeats	That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Another Spring Carol Alfred Austin	``Keeps trilling, trilling, Its nest above, The descant thrilling Of straining love, That yearneth for more-more-more,-till gladness, Still winged...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Book Sixth [Cambridge and the Alps] William Wordsworth	'Twere idle to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Canzone V. Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	Lightens with glad discourse or descant rude; Then spreads his board with food, Such as the forest hoar To our first fathers bore, By...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy VI. To a Lady, On the Language of Birds William Shenstone	Hear linnets argue, larks descant of love, And blame the gloom of solitude, no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
England My Mother William Watson	Cease we to echo Faintly the descant Whereto for ever Dances the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epilogue--To The Poet's Sitter Francis Thompson	My figured descant hides the simple theme: Or in another wise reproving, say I ill observe thine own high...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epithalamion Edmund Spenser	The Thrush replyes; the Mavis descant playes; The Ouzell shrills; the Ruddock warbles soft; So goodly all agree, with sweet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hero And Leander. The Sixth Sestiad George Chapman	And pricks his descant face full of false notes; Praising with open throat, and oaths as foul As his false heart,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Langue D'Oc Ezra Pound	(Guilhem de Peitieu) III Descant on a Theme by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
New Year's Chimes Francis Thompson	Loud the descant, and low the theme, (A million songs are as song of one) And the dream of the world is dream...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode in May William Watson	As once, from lips that endure, The cosmic descant rose, When the temporal lord of life, Going his golden way, Had taken a wondrous maid...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of all nacyons vnder the heuyn John Skelton	His descant is dasshed full of dyscordes A red angry man but easy to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the Death of Richard West Thomas Gray	3 The birds in vain their amorous descant join; 4 Or cheerful fields resume their green attire; 5 These ears,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Passer by Hakikur Rahman	Slender hope, Bitter expectation, Tuneless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poem 5 Edmund Spenser	The thrush replyes, the Mauis descant playes, The Ouzell shrills, the Ruddock warbles soft, So goodly all agree with sweet content,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Psalm CXLVIII George Wither	Whistling winds, your descant bring: Which may bear the sound above, Where the orb of fire doth move; And so climb from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet LVII: Like As the Lute Samuel Daniel	A wailing descant on the sweetest ground, Whose due reports give honor to her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet on the Death of Mr Richard West Thomas Gray	The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Substitution Sorav and "Athena"	Vying to take over, to ruin your...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
SYMPHONY'S NIGHT VOICES NANCY LL	You can hear Mother Nature descant It's a sound so naturally "Alluring and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Growth of Love Robert Seymour Bridges	And list the lark descant upon my theme, Heaven's musical accepted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lord of the Isles: Canto I. Sir Walter Scott	' - 'twas thus they sung, And yet more proud the descant rung, 'Wake, Maid of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Meadow Archibald Lampman	The white-throat's distant descant with slow stress Note after note upon the noonday falls, Filling the leisured air at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)