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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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THE PEACOCK.
I, glorying in my tail's extended pride,
See my foul legs, and then I shriek outright;
So shrieks a human soul, that has descried
Its baseness 'mid vainglorious self-delight.
Poems from Eastern sources (1851)