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... delight , While she views her favourite star Brightening on the brow of night . Here , though lowly be my lot , Enter freely , freely share All the comforts of my cot , Humble shelter , homely fare . Spouse ! I bring a suffering guest ...
... delight , While she views her favourite star Brightening on the brow of night . Here , though lowly be my lot , Enter freely , freely share All the comforts of my cot , Humble shelter , homely fare . Spouse ! I bring a suffering guest ...
Page 68
... delightful land Which I yet must call my own . To the Vale of SWITZ they came : Soon their meliorating toil Gave the forests to the flame , And their ashes to the soil . Thence their ardent labours spread , Till above the mountain ...
... delightful land Which I yet must call my own . To the Vale of SWITZ they came : Soon their meliorating toil Gave the forests to the flame , And their ashes to the soil . Thence their ardent labours spread , Till above the mountain ...
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... delightful fountains flow Ambrosial rills of pleasure : - Can man desire , can Heaven bestow , A more resplendent treasure ? Adorn'd with gems so richly bright , We'll form a Constellation , Where every Star , with modest light , Shall ...
... delightful fountains flow Ambrosial rills of pleasure : - Can man desire , can Heaven bestow , A more resplendent treasure ? Adorn'd with gems so richly bright , We'll form a Constellation , Where every Star , with modest light , Shall ...
Page 105
... delightful music the rising sun , and in me- lancholy tones to have mourned his departure . The intro- duction of this celebrated Lyre , on a modern occasion , will be censured as an anachronism by those only who think that its chords ...
... delightful music the rising sun , and in me- lancholy tones to have mourned his departure . The intro- duction of this celebrated Lyre , on a modern occasion , will be censured as an anachronism by those only who think that its chords ...
Page 137
... his powers ; ELLA , the lily of the vale , The rose of AUBURN's bowers ! In airy Love's delightful bands He held her heart in vain ; The Nymph denied her willing hands To HYMEN's awful chain . " Ah ! why , " said he , " The Vigil of St ...
... his powers ; ELLA , the lily of the vale , The rose of AUBURN's bowers ! In airy Love's delightful bands He held her heart in vain ; The Nymph denied her willing hands To HYMEN's awful chain . " Ah ! why , " said he , " The Vigil of St ...
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age to age ALBERT Alps arms Art thou battle birth blaze bliss blood blow Bow'd brave breast breath breeze burn'd canton of URI charms clouds cold country's dark daughter dead dear death despair earth EDMUND enchantment eternal expiring faithless fathers fell fire Fire from heaven flame fled flood flowers foes fond FRIEND GALLIA's GAULS glory grave grief Hark head heart heaven hoary hope and fear horror hurl'd JAMES BALLANTYNE Lake land light Lyre MEMNON morn Mother mountains mournful Muse's NATURE'S night numbers o'er OCEAN pale peace plain poor repose rest rill roam rocks roll'd rose scene seem'd shade Shep Sire slain slaves sleep smile soft sorrows soul spirit star storm sweet sweetly Swiss tears tempest thee thine thou Thrice tomb Twas UNDERWALDEN vale Valley Vengeance voice Wand WANDERER OF SWITZERLAND waves weary weep wild wilderness wind wounds youth
Popular passages
Page 80 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground, " The soul, of origin divine, GOD'S glorious image, freed from clay,. In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine A star of day ! " The sun is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky; The soul, immortal as its Sire, Shall never die!
Page 175 - The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye That once their shades and glory threw, Have left in yonder silent sky No vestige where they flew. The annals of the human race, Their ruins since the world began, Of HIM afford no other trace Than this, — THERE LIVED A MAN ! 63 THE HARP OF SORROW.
Page 173 - LOT. ONCE in the flight of ages past, There lived a man : — and who was he ? Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee.
Page 152 - Lights pale October on his way, And twines December's arms. The purple heath and golden broom, On moory mountains catch the gale^ O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume. The violet in the vale. But this bold floweret climbs the hill. Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den.
Page 73 - The soul, of origin divine, God's glorious image freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine A star of day ! The sun is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The soul, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE!
Page 74 - Than summer evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath the soil, To slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. For misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild : I perish ; — O my mother Earth ! Take home thy Child.
Page 126 - Welcome to a Land of Rest ! Thus the choir of angels sing, As they bear the soul on high, While with hallelujahs ring All the regions of the sky.
Page 77 - Though long of winds and waves the sport, Condemn'd in wretchedness to roam, LIVE ! — thou shalt reach a sheltering port, A quiet home. " To FRIENDSHIP didst thou trust thy fame, And was thy friend a deadly foe, Who stole into thy breast to aim A surer blow ?
Page 123 - Prisoner, long detained below, Prisoner, now with freedom blest, Welcome from a world of woe ; Welcome to a land of rest " : Thus the choir of angels sing, As...
Page 174 - The changing spirits' rise and fall, We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all. He suffered, — but his pangs are o'er ; Enjoyed, — but his delights are fled ; Had friends, — his friends are now no more ; And foes, — his foes are dead. He...