The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 23Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... face . When mercy joins with majesty To spread their beams abroad , Not all their fairest minds on high Are shadows of a Gon . Thy works the strongest seraph sings In a too feeble strain , And labours hard on all his strings , To reach ...
... face . When mercy joins with majesty To spread their beams abroad , Not all their fairest minds on high Are shadows of a Gon . Thy works the strongest seraph sings In a too feeble strain , And labours hard on all his strings , To reach ...
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... face . Why move my years in slow delay ? O God of ages ! why ? Let the spheres cleave , and mark my way To the superior sky . VOL . XXIII . E Dear Sovereign , break these vital strings That bind me Book 1 . 49 SACRED TO DEVOTION ...
... face . Why move my years in slow delay ? O God of ages ! why ? Let the spheres cleave , and mark my way To the superior sky . VOL . XXIII . E Dear Sovereign , break these vital strings That bind me Book 1 . 49 SACRED TO DEVOTION ...
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... face ? Who can behold the blazing light ? Who can approach consuming flame ? None but thy wisdom knows thy might ; None but thy word can speak thy name . THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST . SHEPHERDS , rejoice , lift up your eyes , And send your ...
... face ? Who can behold the blazing light ? Who can approach consuming flame ? None but thy wisdom knows thy might ; None but thy word can speak thy name . THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST . SHEPHERDS , rejoice , lift up your eyes , And send your ...
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... face ; When he descends within my view , He charms my reason to pursue , But leaves it tir'd and fainting in the ' unequal chase . Or , if I reach unusual height Till near his presence brought , There floods of glory check my flight ...
... face ; When he descends within my view , He charms my reason to pursue , But leaves it tir'd and fainting in the ' unequal chase . Or , if I reach unusual height Till near his presence brought , There floods of glory check my flight ...
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... face : Confus'd and dismal were the cries , Let Moses speak , or Israel dies : Moses the spreading terror feels , No more the man of God conceals His shivering and surprise : Yet , with recovering mind , commands [ bands . Silence , and ...
... face : Confus'd and dismal were the cries , Let Moses speak , or Israel dies : Moses the spreading terror feels , No more the man of God conceals His shivering and surprise : Yet , with recovering mind , commands [ bands . Silence , and ...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 27 Ezekiel Sanford,Robert Walsh, Jr. No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 379 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound ; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Page 377 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Page 378 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels join'd the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 378 - 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.
Page 383 - 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 redbreast 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 377 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound...
Page 22 - Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
Page 380 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise, To deck its Poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp* shall now be laid ; That he, whose heart in sorrow bleeds, May love through life the soothing shade.
Page 362 - 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.