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''I'll be a new bird with the head of an ass,
Two pigs' feet, two men's feet, and two of a hen''
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, ...
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''We have bathed, where none have seen us,
In the lake and in the fountain,
Underneath the charmed statue
Of the timid, bending Venus,''
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, The. Christop...
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''Old Adam, the carrion crow,''
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols...
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''But wilt thou cure thine heart
Of love and all its smart,
Then die, dear, die;''
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir...
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Squats on a toad-stool under a tree
A bodiless childfull of life in the gloom,
Crying with frog voice, "What shall I be?
Poor unborn ghost, for my mother killed me
Scarcely alive i...
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, ...
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''Is that the wind dying? O no;
It's only two devils, that blow
Through a murderer's bones, to and fro,
In the ghosts' moonshine.''
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols...
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''The swallow leaves her nest,
The soul my weary breast;''
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950....
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''We are afraid
They would envy our delight,
In our graves by glow-worm night.''
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Death's Jest Book (l. 43-48). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, ...
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''If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung the bell,
What would you buy?''
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. Dream-Pedlary (l. 43-48). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Art...
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Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river dragon stretched along.
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
And on his back there la...
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), British poet, physiologist. The Last Man (l. 1-6). . .
Oxford Book of Travel Verse, The. Kevin Crossley-Holland...
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