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The Enviable Isles
Herman Melville
Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,
But, nearer, green; and, on the marge, the sea
Makes thunder low...
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The Harp Of Hoel
William Lisle Bowles
The silver rood was then descried,
While deacon youths, from side to side,
The fuming censer...
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The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (excerpts)
James Beattie
The pipe of early shepherd dim descried
In the lone valley; echoing far and wide
The clamorous horn along the cliffs above;
The...
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The Missionary - Canto Fifth
William Lisle Bowles
The Spanish camp and night-fires they descried:
Then on the stranger's neck that wild maid fell,
And said, Thy own gods prosper thee,...
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The Moon and the Comet
Amelia Opie
She soon with wondering looks descried
'Twas not on her that eyes were turned;
For her no curious ardour burned;
At her no...
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The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
Anne Kingsmill Finch
The supplanter, then unfelt,
Easily had been descried
For one that did in tents abide,
For some beauteous handmaid's joy,
And his mother's darling...
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The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady
George Meredith
And not on her soft lips was it...
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The Two Men
Thomas Hardy
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Through The Metidja To Abd-El-Kadr
Robert Browning
He, in whom our Tribes confide,
Is descried, ways untried
As I ride, as I...
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To A Friend Who Sent Me A Box Of Violets
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Taw's tributary--
At midnight murmuring,
Descried them, the delicate
Dark-eyed goddesses,
There by his cressy bed
Dissolved and dreaming
Dreams...
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To Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Austin
Plays at being lost and laughs to be descried,
And blooms lie wilted on the orchard floor,
Then the sweet birds that from Ægean shore...
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To the Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen's
Matthew Prior
For here, as in some glass, is well descried
Only yourself thus often...
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Unofficial
Edith Nesbit
In the office without I...
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Vision Of Columbus - Book 5
Joel Barlow
With tears of joy, while still his eyes descried
Their course adventurous o'er the distant...
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Z---------'s Dream
Anne Brontë
-- but earnest mirth,
And truthful love I there descried;
And, while I thought upon his worth,
My bosom glowed with joy and...
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