Vicissitude; or, The sun and shade of xxx. hours. A poem |
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Vicissitude: Or, the Sun and Shade of Xxx. Hours. a Poem Peter Southmead Glubb No preview available - 2018 |
Vicissitude: Or, the Sun and Shade of XXX. Hours. a Poem Peter Southmead Glubb No preview available - 2015 |
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Alfred Bacchus beneath bless bosom bowl breast bright brow Calais Canto Castle child Crairne crave cried Cursed dark deemed deep Disguised drawbridge dream E'en Earl of Warwick earth Edward IV Edward Rose Elizabeth Erebus fame Fleathen fled flood God's Godwin golden bowl grace Harp hath heard heart heaven Helen Henrick Guy holy hour HYMENEAL INTRODUCTORY NOTE Julia King Edward Lady Gray Lady Gray's laid light LISKEARD Lord Love's maid maiden marriage Mervindell Midwood Minstrel monarch Moon mother Muse ne'er neath nigh night o'er pause plain pray racter round Royal sacred saturnine Scarce SHADE OF XXX silver cord Sir Henrick smiles smote song soul sound sped spirits stood strange Stranger SUN AND SHADE tale thine Thou thought tomb trod truth Vicissitude wave ween whispered wight wild wind Windsor Castle wine wing words worship wrought Yorkist young youth
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Page 38 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning.
Page 48 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 99 - Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, -which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar : and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged.
Page 47 - Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted of God in the time of man's innocency, signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his Church; which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence, and first miracle that he wrought, in Cana of Galilee...
Page xiv - Cursed is the ground for thy sake ;" " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;" "for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Page 114 - At which marriage was none present but the spouse, (Edward,) the spousesse, (Elizabeth,) the Duchess of Bedford, her mother, the priest, and two gentlewomen, and a young man to help the priest sing.
Page 49 - IS it not strange, the darkest hour That ever dawned on sinful earth Should touch the heart with softer power For comfort, than an angel's mirth ? That to the Cross the mourner's eye should turn Sooner than where the stars of Christmas burn...
Page 39 - ... his fellow disciples used to call him the ass; but resolution and application raised him above them all, made him a complete master of the stoic philosophy, and qualified him as successor of the illustrious Zeno. Democritus beautifully expressed the same sentiment, by representing Truth as hid in the bottom of a well; to intimate the difficulty with which she is found. Analogous to the conduct of Cleanthes, was that of...
Page xiv - If niggard Earth her treasures hide™, To all but labouring hands denied, Lavish of thorns and worthless weeds alone, The doom is half in mercy given To train us in our way to Heaven, And shew our lagging souls how glory must be won. If on the sinner's outward frame...
Page vii - Beneath her clear, discerning eye, The visionary shadows fly Of folly's painted show : She sees, through every fair disguise, That all but virtue's solid joys Is vanity and woe.