The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One VolumeA. and W. Galignani, 1829 - 497 pages |
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... rise ! ( 2 ) Each stamps its image as the other flies ! Each , as the various avenues of sense Delight or sorrow to ... rising , swell'd their strange expanse of sail ; So , when he breathed his firm yet fond adieu , ( 4 ) Borne from his ...
... rise ! ( 2 ) Each stamps its image as the other flies ! Each , as the various avenues of sense Delight or sorrow to ... rising , swell'd their strange expanse of sail ; So , when he breathed his firm yet fond adieu , ( 4 ) Borne from his ...
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... rise , And sinks a martyr to repentant sighs . Want with her babes round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , " T was thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' t was thine perchance the first to die ...
... rise , And sinks a martyr to repentant sighs . Want with her babes round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , " T was thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' t was thine perchance the first to die ...
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... rise - with searching glance pursue Some long - loved image vanished from her view ; Dart through the deep recesses of the past , O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast ; With giant - grasp fling back the folds of night , And snatch ...
... rise - with searching glance pursue Some long - loved image vanished from her view ; Dart through the deep recesses of the past , O'er dusky forms in chains of slumber cast ; With giant - grasp fling back the folds of night , And snatch ...
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... rise , To meet the changes Time and Chance present , With modest dignity and calm content . When thy last breath , ere Nature sunk to rest , Thy meek submission to thy God express'd ; When thy last look , ere thought an " feeling fled ...
... rise , To meet the changes Time and Chance present , With modest dignity and calm content . When thy last breath , ere Nature sunk to rest , Thy meek submission to thy God express'd ; When thy last look , ere thought an " feeling fled ...
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... rise to view , Think nothing done while aught remains to do . And say , how soon , where , blithe as innocent , The boy at sun - rise whistled as he went , An aged pilgrim on his staff shall lean , Tracing in vain the footsteps o'er the ...
... rise to view , Think nothing done while aught remains to do . And say , how soon , where , blithe as innocent , The boy at sun - rise whistled as he went , An aged pilgrim on his staff shall lean , Tracing in vain the footsteps o'er the ...
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age to age amidst arms art thou beauty behold beneath blest blood bosom breast breath Capel Lofft Charles Lamb charm clouds dark dead death deep delight dream earth eternal father fear fire flame fled flowers gaze gloom glory Gondoline grace grave Greenland grief hand harp hath heard heart heaven Henry Kirke White hope hour Javan land light living lonely look'd Lord lyre mind moon morning mother mountains muse Nature's never night Note numbers o'er once pale pass'd peace Petrarch PSALM rapture rest rise rock rose round scene seem'd shade shine shore sigh silent sing sleep slumbers smile song SONNET sorrow soul spirit star stood storm sublime sweet tears tempest thee Theodric thine thou thought tomb trembling turn'd vale Venice voice wandering waves weep wild wind wings woods youth
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Page 96 - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Page 41 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some!
Page 39 - I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith was shrieking ; And in the scowl of Heaven each face Grew dark as they were speaking. But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode armed men, Their trampling sounded nearer.
Page 70 - GOD is my strong salvation, What foe have I to fear ? In darkness and temptation, My light, my help is near.
Page 75 - For Him shall prayer unceasing And daily vows ascend, His kingdom still increasing, A kingdom without end: The mountain-dews shall nourish ' A seed in weakness sown, Whose fruit shall spread and flourish And shake like Lebanon.
Page 4 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time; And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Page 119 - The storm, that wrecks the winter sky, No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose.
Page 93 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 40 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Page 40 - The Soldier's Dream. OUR bugles sang truce ; for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.