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James Henry Leigh Hunt
(1784 - 1859 / London / England)
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''"No love," quothe he, "but vanity, sets love a task like
that."''
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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. The Glove and the Lions (l. 24). . .
Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Compan...
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''The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.''
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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. The Nile (l. 8). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinte...
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''It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,''
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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. The Nile (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprin...
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''Green little vaulter in the sunny grass,''
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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. To the Grasshopper and the Cricket (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Ha...
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''Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.''
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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. Abou Ben Adhem (l. 14). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New...
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''And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest!''
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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. Abou Ben Adhem (l. 17-18). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (...
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''Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)''
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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. Abou Ben Adhem (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ...
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''Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.''
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Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. Jenny Kiss'd Me (l. 5-8). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (N...
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