Alnwick Castle, with Other PoemsG. Dearborn, 1836 - 98 pages |
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... life's leaf like thine , Wild rose of Alloway ? Not so his memory , for whose sake My bosom bore thee far and long , His - who a humbler flower could make Immortal as his song , The memory of Burns - a name That calls , when brimmed her ...
... life's leaf like thine , Wild rose of Alloway ? Not so his memory , for whose sake My bosom bore thee far and long , His - who a humbler flower could make Immortal as his song , The memory of Burns - a name That calls , when brimmed her ...
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... life was in its bud and blossoming , And waters , gushing from the fountain spring Of pure enthusiast thought , dimmed my young eyes , As by the poet borne , on unseen wing , I breathed , in fancy , ' neath thy cloudless skies , The ...
... life was in its bud and blossoming , And waters , gushing from the fountain spring Of pure enthusiast thought , dimmed my young eyes , As by the poet borne , on unseen wing , I breathed , in fancy , ' neath thy cloudless skies , The ...
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... life , a vision of the brain no more . I've stood upon the wooded mountain's brow , That beetles high thy lovely valley o'er ; And now , where winds thy river's greenest shore , Within a bower of sycamores am laid ; And winds , as soft ...
... life , a vision of the brain no more . I've stood upon the wooded mountain's brow , That beetles high thy lovely valley o'er ; And now , where winds thy river's greenest shore , Within a bower of sycamores am laid ; And winds , as soft ...
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... life's fairy scenes depart , As fades the day - beam in the rosy west . " Tis with a nameless feeling of regret We gaze upon them as they melt away , And fondly would we bid them linger yet , But Hope is round us with her angel lay ...
... life's fairy scenes depart , As fades the day - beam in the rosy west . " Tis with a nameless feeling of regret We gaze upon them as they melt away , And fondly would we bid them linger yet , But Hope is round us with her angel lay ...
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... Life's little world of bliss was newly born ; We knew not , cared not , it was born to die , Flushed with the cool breeze and the dews of morn , With dancing heart we gazed on the pure sky , And mocked the passing clouds that dimmed its ...
... Life's little world of bliss was newly born ; We knew not , cared not , it was born to die , Flushed with the cool breeze and the dews of morn , With dancing heart we gazed on the pure sky , And mocked the passing clouds that dimmed its ...
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Alloway autumn Babylon bard battle beauty beneath the sky bird bliss blue born bough bower Bozzaris brave breath bridal bright brow Burns cheek chivalry clime clouds cold cottage dark death doom dreams earth faded fame forest leaves forest shade funeral gallant gaze gentle Gertrude glory glory's glowing grave Greece green hair happy harp hath heard heart heaven hope hour King land leaf Lexington life's linger lisp listened lovelier loveliest lyre Magdalen maiden memory mind's minstrel monarch morn o'er Palestine Poet's daughter pride proud pure RED JACKET RODMAN DRAKE sings sires skies sleep slumbers smile song summer flowers sunbeam sunny sweet tears tells thee There's thine thou art thought throne tomb tree trod TUSCARORAS twilight wandering warm wave weep wild WILD ROSE wind wings witchery WYOMING young youth
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Page 16 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 20 - Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time Rest thee : there is no prouder grave Even in her own proud clime.
Page 85 - They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why ; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty; A stubborn race, fearing and flattering none.
Page 19 - That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song and dance and wine, — And thou art terrible ; the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
Page 38 - ... turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth.
Page 17 - At midnight, in the forest shades, Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's thousands stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Plataea's day; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquered there, With arm to strike, and soul to dare, As quick, as far as they.
Page 21 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That...
Page 10 - Above his princely towers. A gentle hill its side inclines, Lovely in England's fadeless green, To meet the quiet stream which winds Through this romantic scene As silently and sweetly still, As when, at evening, on that hill, While summer's wind blew soft and low, Seated by gallant Hotspur's side, His Katherine was a happy bride, A thousand years ago.
Page 18 - And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 86 - But these are but their outcasts. View them near At home, where all their worth and pride is placed; And there their hospitable fires burn clear, And there the lowliest farm-house hearth is graced With manly hearts, in piety sincere, Faithful in love, in honor stern and chaste, In friendship warm and true, in danger brave, Beloved in life, and sainted in the grave.