The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 pages |
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... green , While evening dews enrich the glittering glade , And the tall forests cast a longer shade , What time ' tis sweet o'er fields of rice to stray , Or scent the breathing maize at setting day ; Amidst the maids of Zagen's peaceful ...
... green , While evening dews enrich the glittering glade , And the tall forests cast a longer shade , What time ' tis sweet o'er fields of rice to stray , Or scent the breathing maize at setting day ; Amidst the maids of Zagen's peaceful ...
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... green . Her maids around her mov'd , a duteous band ! Each bore a crook all rural in her hand : Some simple lay , of flocks and herds they sung : With joy the mountain and the forest rung . Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And ...
... green . Her maids around her mov'd , a duteous band ! Each bore a crook all rural in her hand : Some simple lay , of flocks and herds they sung : With joy the mountain and the forest rung . Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And ...
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... green hills , in summer's sultry heat Have lent the monarch oft a cool retreat . Sweet to the sight is Zabran's flowery plain , And once by maids and shepherds loved in vain ! No more the virgins shall delight to rove By Sargis ' banks ...
... green hills , in summer's sultry heat Have lent the monarch oft a cool retreat . Sweet to the sight is Zabran's flowery plain , And once by maids and shepherds loved in vain ! No more the virgins shall delight to rove By Sargis ' banks ...
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... green retreat , On whose enamell'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allured thy future feet . O sister meek of Truth , To my admiring youth Thy sober aid and native charms infuse ! The flowers that sweetest breathe ...
... green retreat , On whose enamell'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allured thy future feet . O sister meek of Truth , To my admiring youth Thy sober aid and native charms infuse ! The flowers that sweetest breathe ...
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... green - hair'd bride : Hail , port of glory , wealth , and pleasure ! Ne'er let me change this Lydian measure ; Nor e'er her former pride relate , To sad Liguria's bleeding state . Ah , no ! more pleased thy haunts I.seek , TO LIBERTY . 29.
... green - hair'd bride : Hail , port of glory , wealth , and pleasure ! Ne'er let me change this Lydian measure ; Nor e'er her former pride relate , To sad Liguria's bleeding state . Ah , no ! more pleased thy haunts I.seek , TO LIBERTY . 29.
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Page 109 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 108 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 48 - No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew ! The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid.
Page 107 - ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 75 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd ! How low, how little, are the proud ! How indigent the great...
Page 43 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Page 110 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he ; The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 27 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Page 150 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave?
Page 41 - The doubling drum with furious heat; And, though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd mien, While each strain'd ball of sight seem'd bursting from his head.