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" Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 339
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert ...

George Herbert - 1874 - 408 pages
...the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingring book, And wrap me in a gown; 40 I was entangled in the world of strife Before I had the power to change my life. Yet, for I threatned oft the siege to raise, Not simpring all mine age, Thou often didst with academick...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...spirit rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap Before the golden tresses of the dead, The right of sepulchres, were shorn away, To live a se Yet lest perchance I should too happy be In my unhappincss, Turning my purge to food, Thou throwest...
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the poetical works of george gilbert

a.b. grosart - 1876 - 606 pages
...town, Thou didst betray me to a lingring book, 1 And wrap me in a gown ; 40 I was entangled in the world of strife Before I had the power to change my life. Yet, for I threatned oft the siege to raise, Not simpring all mine age, Thou often didst with academick...
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Favorite Poems

George Herbert - 1877 - 120 pages
...the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. Yet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age, Thou often didst with academic...
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Auld lang syne, by the author of The wreck of the 'Grosvenor'.

William Clark Russell - 1878 - 302 pages
...spirit rather took The way that takes the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in a world of strife Before I had the power to change my life." The Lord help him ! Out of his bed rose Cuthbert, to the tune of the school-bell, swung by the man...
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Great English Churchmen: Or, Famous Names in English Church History and ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 462 pages
...spirit rather took The way that takes the town : Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown : I was entangled in a world of strife Before I had the power to change my life. " Yet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age : Thou often didst with...
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The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green

John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 pages
...the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. Yet, for I threaten'd oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age, Thou often didst with Academic...
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The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse: Edited from the Latest ...

George Herbert - 1881 - 604 pages
...spirit rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in a world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. " Yet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, Not simp' ring all mine age, * In Walton's time. He...
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Parnassus

1882 - 578 pages
...spirit rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in a world of strife, Before I had the power to change niy life. Yet lest perchance I should too happy be In my unhappiness, Turning my purge to food, Thou...
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The Temple and Other English Poems

George Herbert - 1883 - 262 pages
...the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. 40 REPENTANCE. Yet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, Not simpering all mine age, Thou often...
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