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" Yet abandon'd to thy will, Yet imagining no ill, Yet too innocent to blush ; Like the linnet in the bush To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat ; Chirping forth thy petty joys, Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet green, in May... "
Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic - Page 461
by Beautiful poetry - 1854
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 3

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1913 - 632 pages
...linnet in the bush, To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat, Chirping forth thy pretty joys, Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet...pleasures, other cares, Ever-busy Time prepares ; And thcu shalt in thy daughter see This picture once resembled thee. THOMAS PARNELL. [THOMAS PARNELL was...
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Wordsworth to Tennyson

William Stebbing - 1913 - 448 pages
...too innocent to blush ; Like the linnet in the bush, To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat ; Chirping forth thy petty joys, Wanton in...Wearied then, and glad of rest, Like the linnet in the nest.46 Then there is Henry Carey's Sally : Of all the girls that are so smart There 'a none like pretty...
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Poems of youth and age

1915 - 494 pages
...linnet in the bush To the mother-linnet 's note Moduling her slender throat; Chirping forth thy pretty joys, Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet...pleasures, other cares, Ever-busy Time prepares; And thou shall in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee. Ambrose Philips [1675?-: 740] THE PICTURE...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 pages
...linnet in the bush, To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat, Chirping forth thy pretty joys; Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet...thy daughter see This picture once resembled thee. JOHN DYER GRONGAR HILL Silent Nymph, with curious eye! Who, the purple evening, lie On the mountain's...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 pages
...linnet in the bush, To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat, Chirping forth thy pretty joys; Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet...Ever-busy Time prepares; And thou shalt in thy daughter sea This picture once resembled thee. « *' . , '- JOHN DYER e #• f /-'I,/ GRONGAR HILL Silent Nymph,...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

1918 - 2030 pages
...in the. bush To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat; 273 Chirping forth thy pretty joys, Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet...pleasures, other cares, Ever-busy Time prepares; And thou shall in thy daughter sec, This picture, once, resembled thee. Ambrose Philips [i67S?-i74Ql THE PICTURE...
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A Book of English Verse on Infancy and Childhood

Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 pages
...too innocent to blush ; Like the linnet in the bush To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat ; Chirping forth thy petty joys, Wanton in...daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee. COLLEY CIBBER LIX THE BLIND BOY Oh, say what is that thing called light Which I can ne'er enjoy ? What...
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Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1921 - 626 pages
...linnet in the bush, To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat, Chirping forth thy pretty joys, Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet...Ever-busy Time prepares ; And thou shalt in thy daughter s*« This picture once resembled thee. THOMAS PARNELL. [THOMAS FARNELL was bom in Dublin in 16/9, and...
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English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the ..., Volume 37

Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 pages
...linnet in the bush, To the mother-linnet's note Moduling her slender throat. Chirping forth thy pretty joys, Wanton in the change of toys, Like the linnet...then, and glad of rest, Like the linnet in the nest To Miss Georgiana, youngest daughter to Lord Carteret, August to, 1725, indicates an attempt to write...
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The Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century

Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 pages
...too innocent to blush ; Like the linlet in the bush, To the mother linnet's note Moduling her slender throat, Chirping forth thy petty joys ; Wanton in...Flitting to each bloomy spray ; Wearied then, and glad to rest, Like the linlet in the nest. This thy present happy lot, This, in time, will be forgot : Other...
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