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Poems from Eastern sources (1851)
Trench, Richard Chenevix (1807-1886)
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THANKFULNESS.
CHARITY.
QUATRAINS.
THE PHŒNIX.
THE PELICAN.
THE HALCYON.
THE COCK.
THE PEACOCK.
THE EAGLE.
THE ERMINE.
THE BEES.
THE DIAMOND.
THE COCK.
THE NIGHTINGALE.
THE SNAKE.
THE TIGER.
FALLING STARS.
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Poems from Eastern sources (1851)
THE PHŒNIX.
When
Adam ate of that forbidden food,
Sole bird that shared not in his sin was I;
And so my life is evermore renewed,
And I among the dying never die.
Poems from Eastern sources (1851)