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" To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove; But shepherd lads assemble here, And... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 139
by William Shakespeare - 1803
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pages
...virgins own their love. No withered witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; 10 The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy...Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flow'rs, 15 To deck the ground where thou art laid. When howling winds, and beating rain,...
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The Book of Sorrow

Andrew Macphail - 1916 - 542 pages
...grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare...assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1918 - 1120 pages
...tomb •* Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare...assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt...
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Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1921 - 626 pages
...this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assembled here, And melting virgins own their love. No withered witch shall here be seen ; No goblins lead their nightly...haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew I The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered...
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The Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century

Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 pages
...grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare...kindly lend his little aid : With hoary moss, and gather 'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. When howling winds, and beating rain, In...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...Hinds shall bring Each op'ning Sweet, of earliest Bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. npc 1 £ No wailing Ghost shall dare appear To vex with Shrieks...assemble here, And melting Virgins own their Love. No wither'd Witch shall here be seen, No Goblins lead their Nightly crew : The Female Fays shall haunt...
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Fairy Tales, legends and romances illustrating Shakespeare and other early ...

442 pages
...his tomb be haunted." Or, as in the pathetic dirge of Collins on the same occasion — ** No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly...haunt the green. And dress thy grave with pearly dew." 1 They nevertheless sometimes haunted the buttery : " Have you nothing to do [quoth the widanv to her...
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Leigh Hunt and the Poetry of Fancy

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1994 - 290 pages
...grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare...assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. 123 Like Collins's poem, and like the ending to Wuthering Heights, Hunt's lines are a kind of apotropaic...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each op'ning sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare...here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew: 10 The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The redbreast oft at...
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