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BLOOMFIELD'S POETICAL WOEKS. Including 
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*• Bloomfield gathers the white clouds to rest in the evening sky, like a flock of 
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LEIGH HUNT'S STORIES IN YERSE. With Two 
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This volume contains a new Introduction, with the entire revision of 
the Poems, and is printed uniform with Tennyson's and Hood's Works. 
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" Fix as you will Leigh Hunt's place as 
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and all that he has written of this kind 
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W HARRISON AINSWORTH'S BALLADS: 
• Romantic, Fantastical, and Humorous. Illustrated with Eight 
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POEMS BY WILLIAM ALLINGHAM : The Music- 
Master, and Day and Night Songs. Two Series. 
With Nine Wood Engravings. 
Seven designed by Arthur Hughes. 
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