The Works of Thomas Moore: Epistles, odes, and other poems1823 |
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... nature ; " and there certainly is a close approximation to savage life , not only in the liberty which they enjoy , but in the violence of party spirit and of private animosity which results from it . This illiberal zeal embitters all ...
... nature ; " and there certainly is a close approximation to savage life , not only in the liberty which they enjoy , but in the violence of party spirit and of private animosity which results from it . This illiberal zeal embitters all ...
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... natural period of corruption , represses every sanguine hope of the future energy and greatness of America . I am conscious that , in venturing these few re- marks , I have said just enough to offend , and by no means sufficient to ...
... natural period of corruption , represses every sanguine hope of the future energy and greatness of America . I am conscious that , in venturing these few re- marks , I have said just enough to offend , and by no means sufficient to ...
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... nature soon gave all the rest ! It chanced that in the fairy bower Where they had found their sweetest shed , This Lyre , of strange and magic power , Hung gently whispering o'er their head . And while , with eyes of mingling fire ...
... nature soon gave all the rest ! It chanced that in the fairy bower Where they had found their sweetest shed , This Lyre , of strange and magic power , Hung gently whispering o'er their head . And while , with eyes of mingling fire ...
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... Nature to study her laws , And dulling delight by exploring its cause , You forget how superior , for mortals below , Is the fiction they dream to the truth that they know . Oh ! who , that has ever had rapture complete , Would ask how ...
... Nature to study her laws , And dulling delight by exploring its cause , You forget how superior , for mortals below , Is the fiction they dream to the truth that they know . Oh ! who , that has ever had rapture complete , Would ask how ...
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... Nature . - D'ALEMBERT . " THEY made her a grave , too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp , * 66 Where , all night long , by a fire - fly lamp , " She paddles her white canoe ...
... Nature . - D'ALEMBERT . " THEY made her a grave , too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp , * 66 Where , all night long , by a fire - fly lamp , " She paddles her white canoe ...
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Page 266 - FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn.2 Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near, and the daylight's past!
Page 47 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before ! And when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew, He lay, where the deadly vine doth weep Its venomous tear, and nightly steep The flesh with blistering dew ! And near him the she-wolf...
Page 187 - Oh Nature ! though blessed and bright are thy rays, O'er the brow of creation enchantingly thrown, Yet faint are they all to the lustre that plays In a smile from the heart that is dearly our own ! Nor long did the soul of the stranger remain...
Page 183 - How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage? All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less than all thou hast forborne to be!
Page 138 - And ev'n that cheek of roseate hue, — To lose it, Cloe, scarce would kill me. That snowy neck I ne'er should miss, However much I've rav'd about it ; And sweetly as that lip can kiss, I think I could exist without it.
Page 272 - I dreamt not then that, ere the rolling year Had fill'd its circle, I should wander here In musing awe ; should tread this wondrous world, See all its store of inland waters hurl'd In one vast volume down Niagara's steep, Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep, Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadows o'er Ontario's bed...
Page 266 - ... upon one of those beautiful lakes, into which the St. Lawrence so grandly and unexpectedly opens, I have heard this simple air with a pleasure which the finest compositions of the first masters have never given me ; and now there is not a note of it which does not recall to my memory the dip of our oars in the St. Lawrence, the flight of our boat down the Rapids, and all those new and fanciful impressions to which my heart was alive during the whole of this very interesting voyage.
Page 246 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, "If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...
Page 152 - Long has the love of gold, that meanest rage, And latest folly of man's sinking age, Which, rarely venturing in the van of life, While nobler passions wage their heated strife, Comes skulking last, with selfishness and fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear...
Page 267 - The rapids arc near and the daylight's past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl, But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh, sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas