The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three PartsAlbion Press: : Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, for T. Williams, Stationers' Court, and T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, 1804 - 155 pages |
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... thro ' peaceful meads , now flies with storms : Now her fair fingers kiss the shepherd's reed , And now she shudders at some nameless deed : Now sadly wandering thro ' the twilight grove , She tells the tale of unrequited love . Now ...
... thro ' peaceful meads , now flies with storms : Now her fair fingers kiss the shepherd's reed , And now she shudders at some nameless deed : Now sadly wandering thro ' the twilight grove , She tells the tale of unrequited love . Now ...
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... thro ' the fields of lore With thoughts and images augments her store : Then Fancy fluttering in the morning beam , 119 Combines her pictures , gives to Hope her dream : Then Judgment slumbering , we are led astray And follow Fiction in ...
... thro ' the fields of lore With thoughts and images augments her store : Then Fancy fluttering in the morning beam , 119 Combines her pictures , gives to Hope her dream : Then Judgment slumbering , we are led astray And follow Fiction in ...
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... Thro ' which some dead - man's voice with shudder- ing accents calls . When years revolving riper knowledge bring And prune the wildness of young Fancy's wing , Then Nature rises in true colours dress'd , We feel her image pictur'd on ...
... Thro ' which some dead - man's voice with shudder- ing accents calls . When years revolving riper knowledge bring And prune the wildness of young Fancy's wing , Then Nature rises in true colours dress'd , We feel her image pictur'd on ...
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... windows of the sky , Thro ' which Aurora shews her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns by living stream at eve . Genius the Gift of Heaven . Judgment to all in 12 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
... windows of the sky , Thro ' which Aurora shews her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns by living stream at eve . Genius the Gift of Heaven . Judgment to all in 12 THE POWERS OF GENIUS .
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... thro ' the thickets pass ; No hunter winds his slow and sullen horn , No whistling cow - herd meets the breath of morn ; O'er the still heath the meteors dart their light And round him sweep the mournful blasts of Night . O voice of ...
... thro ' the thickets pass ; No hunter winds his slow and sullen horn , No whistling cow - herd meets the breath of morn ; O'er the still heath the meteors dart their light And round him sweep the mournful blasts of Night . O voice of ...
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amid APPENDIX Ariosto arms art thou bard beam beauty behold beneath bids blast bold bosom breast breath brow Chill clouds dark death delight Demosthenes divine dwell earth Eclogues elegant fame Fancy Fingal fire footsteps Gallileo Genius give gloom glory Greece head hear heart heaven Henry Fielding honours Hope idolatry Iliad Invention kindled king light literature lyre Massillon MIDNIGHT HYMN mighty Milton mind morning mountains mournful muse Nature Nature's never night numbers o'er Orla Ossian Paradise Lost passions peace Petrarch Pindar plains poem poet poetry POWERS OF GENIUS repose rise roll Rome rous'd Sappho says scenes shades Shakespeare shew Sir William Jones smile song sorrow soul spirit spread storm strain stream sublimity sword taste tears terror thee thou thoughts thro throne thunder tion toil truth vale Vaucluse wandering waves wild winds wings youth