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" Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile) Could those few pleasant hours again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here? I would not trust my heart — the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might. "
Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices - Page 479
by Robert Southey - 1807
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...hours, When, playing with thy vesture's tissu'd flow'rs, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I prick'd them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier...stroke my head, and smile,) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart —...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq: Comprising His Poems ..., Volume 10

William Cowper - 1837 - 436 pages
...hours. When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I prick'd them into paper with a pin, ("And thou wast happier...stroke my head, and smile.) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here? I would not trust my heart ;...
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Poems ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by John M'Diarmid ...

William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...hours, When, playing with thy vesture's tissu'd flow'rs , The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I prick'd them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier...stroke my head, and smile) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them , would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...tissu'd flow'rs, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I prick'd them into paper with a pin, (And th'm wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly...stroke my head, and smile,) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart —...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head, and smile,) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart — the dear delight Seems so to be desir'd, perhaps I might. — But no — what here we call...
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...reversed, restore the hours, When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And...stroke my head, and smile) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart —...
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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, the jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, — 5 (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile,)Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here?...
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Reading Book for the Use of Female Schools

Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...hours When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I prick'd them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier...them, would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart—the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.— But, no—what here we call our...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, t And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst...stroke my head, and smile) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here ! I would not trust my heart ;...
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The Rhetorical Reader Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...vesture•s tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, the jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, — 5 (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile,)Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here?...
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