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... taught thee . Man . ' Tis taught already ; -many a night on the earth , On the bare ground , have I bow'd down my face , And strew'd my head with ashes ; I have known The fulness of humiliation , for I sunk before my vain despair , and ...
... taught thee . Man . ' Tis taught already ; -many a night on the earth , On the bare ground , have I bow'd down my face , And strew'd my head with ashes ; I have known The fulness of humiliation , for I sunk before my vain despair , and ...
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... taught ; And all we can absolve thee shall be pardon'd . Man . When Rome's sixth emperor was near his last , The victim of a self - inflicted wound , To shun the torments of a public death From senates once his slaves , a certain ...
... taught ; And all we can absolve thee shall be pardon'd . Man . When Rome's sixth emperor was near his last , The victim of a self - inflicted wound , To shun the torments of a public death From senates once his slaves , a certain ...
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... taught'st the rest to see . With might unquestion'd , -power to save— Thine only gift hath been the grave To those that worshipp'd thee ; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness ! 3 . Thanks for that lesson ...
... taught'st the rest to see . With might unquestion'd , -power to save— Thine only gift hath been the grave To those that worshipp'd thee ; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness ! 3 . Thanks for that lesson ...
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... taught my bosom how to brook , With fainter sighs , thy soul's release . And didst thou not , since Death for thee Prepared a light and pangless dart , Once long for him thou ne'er shalt see , Who held , and holds thee in his heart ? Oh ...
... taught my bosom how to brook , With fainter sighs , thy soul's release . And didst thou not , since Death for thee Prepared a light and pangless dart , Once long for him thou ne'er shalt see , Who held , and holds thee in his heart ? Oh ...
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... taught me to rejoice , When prone , unlike thee , to repine ; The song , celestial from thy voice , But sweet to me from none but thine ; The pledge we wore I wear it still , But where is thine ? -ah , where art thou ? Oft have I borne ...
... taught me to rejoice , When prone , unlike thee , to repine ; The song , celestial from thy voice , But sweet to me from none but thine ; The pledge we wore I wear it still , But where is thine ? -ah , where art thou ? Oft have I borne ...
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Page 51 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old, — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 87 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord...
Page 61 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 220 - I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill. Green and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and corn-fields, and the abodes of men Scattered at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
Page 50 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.
Page 146 - I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot; There flowers or weeds at will may grow, So I behold them not: It is enough for me to prove That what I loved, and long must love, Like common earth can rot; To me there needs no stone to tell, Tis nothing that I loved so well.
Page 26 - For if the beings, of whom I was one, — Hating to be so, — cross'd me in my path, I felt myself degraded back to them, And was all clay again.
Page 23 - It is not noon — the sunbow's rays ' still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 148 - As once I wept, if I could weep My tears might well be shed, To think I was not near to keep One vigil o'er thy bed; To gaze, how fondly ! on thy face, To fold thee in a faint embrace, Uphold thy drooping head; And show that love, however vain, Nor thou nor I can feel again.
Page 192 - Twas not well to spurn it so. Though the world for this commend thee Though it smile upon the blow, Even its praises must offend thee, Founded on another's woe: Though my many faults defaced me, Could no other arm be found, Than the one which once embraced me, To inflict a cureless wound ? Yet, oh yet, thyself deceive not ; Love may sink by slow decay, But by sudden wrench, believe not Hearts can thus be torn away...