Cromer, a descriptive poem [by J.S. Munnings]. |
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... arms Shrinks from the spray , as from the holy stream Which o'er his face at the baptismal font The priest with mystic , sanctifying hand Sprinkled and stamp'd him Christian ; yet his cries Regard not - plunge him in the briny surge : B ...
... arms Shrinks from the spray , as from the holy stream Which o'er his face at the baptismal font The priest with mystic , sanctifying hand Sprinkled and stamp'd him Christian ; yet his cries Regard not - plunge him in the briny surge : B ...
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... arms into the vanquish'd main , And clasps its waters in a wide embrace ; Yet here full often Beauty's step has mov'd , Often her voice been heard - and her sweet smiles Perchance have beam'd like rays of orient light . Here , too , as ...
... arms into the vanquish'd main , And clasps its waters in a wide embrace ; Yet here full often Beauty's step has mov'd , Often her voice been heard - and her sweet smiles Perchance have beam'd like rays of orient light . Here , too , as ...
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... arms , Wooing the form of Danger as a bride * . As when on Egypt's shores , the hostile fleets In conflict join'd , thy dread volcanoes burst As thunder awful , rapid as the flash Of Heav'n - and Gallia's navy was no more ! -if I must ...
... arms , Wooing the form of Danger as a bride * . As when on Egypt's shores , the hostile fleets In conflict join'd , thy dread volcanoes burst As thunder awful , rapid as the flash Of Heav'n - and Gallia's navy was no more ! -if I must ...
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... arms renown'd , O'er Thebes immortaliz'd by Pindar's verse , And Carthage , once the mistress of the seas , As thou art now , Britannia ; but may fate More kind thy destin'd course attend , and still at the west end is a beautiful ...
... arms renown'd , O'er Thebes immortaliz'd by Pindar's verse , And Carthage , once the mistress of the seas , As thou art now , Britannia ; but may fate More kind thy destin'd course attend , and still at the west end is a beautiful ...
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... arms extends With friendly shelter round the ancient dome , Where honour's manly pride with WYNDHAM dwells , And beauty , bright as fabling poets give To Venus , with its dazzling charms adorns His lov'd companion , fairest of the fair ...
... arms extends With friendly shelter round the ancient dome , Where honour's manly pride with WYNDHAM dwells , And beauty , bright as fabling poets give To Venus , with its dazzling charms adorns His lov'd companion , fairest of the fair ...
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amœni arms azure bank beam Beam'd beauty beetles o'er blest bliss boast Britannia charms cliff coast common's Cricket Cromer crowd Curricle Cuyp dangerous dauntless DEDICATION deep destin'd mark distant edge fair fever'd brain fleets flies friendly gale gaze Gosnell Gothic graceful greatest engineer hapless harrowing Hath heart heaven Henry Henry's honours hope horse Horses-The humble immortaliz'd infant Jetty's labours lane little Nautilus Little Queen Street lofty Fane manly marge Mary's mast mind mother's mould'ring muse's musings ne'er NORFOLK o'er the green ocean's surface path peds Perchance pleas'd Poem pride Quadrupeds remember'd retiring run his course Runton rural sail sand scenes seen Shew shines ship Shipdon shore skill smile smooth sores and shames soul sportive springs stands steeds storm stray'd surge swelling thou thro tide uprais'd vale vassal vast village voice wandering waves in air wheel Whilst whit'ning wickets youth's
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Page 18 - Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 38 - They swim on the surface of the sea, on the back of their shells, which exactly resemble the hulk of a ship ; they raise two feet like masts, and extend a membrane between, which serves as a sail; the other two feet they employ as oars at the side. They are usually seen in the Mediterranean.
Page 32 - Of love despis'dy and sorrow's rankling tooth, Have blanch'd the roses of her cheek, the smile Again shall beam from Julia's lucid eye, Like morn's clear rays that glitter in the east ! THE SENTIMENTAL SOLILOQUY OF A DUMB DONKEY AT MARGATE. ' ••
Page 27 - Quiet the steady sociable proceeds, No danger in its course, and in the rear The humbler vehicle, that bears displayed, In letters legible to every eye, The stamp of fiscal avarice.
Page 37 - Flanders in 1689, ancla marfhal of France in 1703. He died in 1707, after having brought the arts of attacking and defending fortified places to a degree of perfection unknown before. His writings on thtfe iubjects are in the higheft elteem.
Page 22 - I think with some probability of truth ; though, others have doubted it, supposing it impossible but that the constant action of the sea for so many ages must ere this have -dissolved all traces of it.—Barttirt Cramer, p. i.
Page 30 - Contempt^ but little merited, have borne, And cruelty not merited at all ! To man thou little ow'st — his cares are given To rear the noblest steed : the favourite horse Is pamper'd, manag'd, exercis'd, and train'd, The winds of heaven to surpass in speed, And gain the honours of the rapid course; , To bear his master through the Icngthen'd chase, O'er hills, and floods, and vallks, or to shine With gaudy trappings in the van of war.
Page 28 - SKETCH* [From the Morning Herald.] SEE, on the patient ass A lovely charge, the form of beauty sits. Poor and neglected, and ill-treated brute! * -Thou hast been long abus'd...
Page 3 - The town of Cromer is situated on the north-east part of the county of Norfolk, upon the edge of the British ocean, from which it is defended by cliffs of considerable height.
Page 30 - Art doora'd in silent misery to feel The tricks of children and the blows of slaves; Us'd for the vilest offices, and press'd With frequent loads beyond thy strength to bear ; And when the labours of the day have ceas'd, Art...