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... a chaos dark and blighted , But for the pure rays of one lovely gem , Heaven's
solitary child , which seemed excited By some superior fire , nor died with them -
Surviving all its sisters , but was left Sole grace of Night's dishonoured diadem !
... a chaos dark and blighted , But for the pure rays of one lovely gem , Heaven's
solitary child , which seemed excited By some superior fire , nor died with them -
Surviving all its sisters , but was left Sole grace of Night's dishonoured diadem !
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She seemed to view him with a spirit's eye , Full of the immortality of love ;And
woman's faithful heart was last to die ! ... And with its silver light the red flames
clove ; A token of some future glory seeming , Amid the present's fiery desolation ;
As ...
She seemed to view him with a spirit's eye , Full of the immortality of love ;And
woman's faithful heart was last to die ! ... And with its silver light the red flames
clove ; A token of some future glory seeming , Amid the present's fiery desolation ;
As ...
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BY R. P. GILLIES , ESQ . She scarcely seemed of mortal birth , But like a
visionary form , That came to bless our lowly earth ;Unmindful of the storm , She
stood , and oft her golden hair Did float in the perturbed air . Her voice was
soothing to my ...
BY R. P. GILLIES , ESQ . She scarcely seemed of mortal birth , But like a
visionary form , That came to bless our lowly earth ;Unmindful of the storm , She
stood , and oft her golden hair Did float in the perturbed air . Her voice was
soothing to my ...
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... close ; Yet with that chastened , soft and gentle ray , In which no dazzling
splendour fiercely glows , But on whose mellowed light our eyes with joy repose .
Her strength was failing , but it seemed to sink So calmly , tenderly , it woke no
fear ...
... close ; Yet with that chastened , soft and gentle ray , In which no dazzling
splendour fiercely glows , But on whose mellowed light our eyes with joy repose .
Her strength was failing , but it seemed to sink So calmly , tenderly , it woke no
fear ...
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I saw her thrice - Fate's dark decree In widow's garments had arrayed her Yet
beautiful she seemed to be As even my reveries portrayed her : The glow , the
glance had passed away , The sunshine , and the sparkling glitter ; Still , though I
...
I saw her thrice - Fate's dark decree In widow's garments had arrayed her Yet
beautiful she seemed to be As even my reveries portrayed her : The glow , the
glance had passed away , The sunshine , and the sparkling glitter ; Still , though I
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Popular passages
Page 223 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond this vale of death, There surely is some blessed clime, Where life is not a breath ; Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward...
Page 221 - Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers...
Page 89 - All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair — The bees are stirring — birds are on the wing — And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Page 208 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 202 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form.
Page 221 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 155 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I...
Page 203 - The boy — oh ! where was he ? Ask of the winds, that far around With fragments strewed the sea ! With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing that perished there, Was that young, faithful heart.
Page 156 - Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of men. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.
Page 84 - No more of talk where God or angel guest With man, as with his friend, familiar used To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Volume 2 The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry, Alaric Alexander Watts |
| Editor | Alaric Alexander Watts |
| Publisher | Hurst, Chance, and Company, 1829 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Nov 2006 |
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