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The world is full of Woodmen who expel Love’s gentle Dryads from the haunts of life, And vex the nightingales in every dell.
The world is full of Woodmen who expel Love’s gentle Dryads from the haunts of life, And vex the nightingales in every dell.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 279 · printed citation: Shelley (The Woodman and the Nightingale). · compiler notes excluded
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