The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch, and Notes |
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... wall . As o'er my palm the silver piece she drew , And traced the line of life with searching view , How throbbed my fluttering pulse with hopes and fears , To learn the color of my future years ! Ah , then , what honest triumph flushed ...
... wall . As o'er my palm the silver piece she drew , And traced the line of life with searching view , How throbbed my fluttering pulse with hopes and fears , To learn the color of my future years ! Ah , then , what honest triumph flushed ...
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... walls attest , " And unborn ages consecrate thy nest . When , with the silent energy of grief , With looks that asked , yet dared not hope relief , Want with her babes round generous Valor clung , To wring the slow surrender from his ...
... walls attest , " And unborn ages consecrate thy nest . When , with the silent energy of grief , With looks that asked , yet dared not hope relief , Want with her babes round generous Valor clung , To wring the slow surrender from his ...
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... wall what bright ideas start ! Even now he claims the amaranthine wreath , With scenes that glow , with images that breathe ! And whence these scenes , these images , declare . Whence but from Her who triumphs o'er despair ? Awake ...
... wall what bright ideas start ! Even now he claims the amaranthine wreath , With scenes that glow , with images that breathe ! And whence these scenes , these images , declare . Whence but from Her who triumphs o'er despair ? Awake ...
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... wall ; The tender images we love to trace Steal from each year a melancholy grace ! And as the sparks of social love expand , As the heart opens in a foreign land ; And with a brother's warmth , a brother's smile , The stranger greets ...
... wall ; The tender images we love to trace Steal from each year a melancholy grace ! And as the sparks of social love expand , As the heart opens in a foreign land ; And with a brother's warmth , a brother's smile , The stranger greets ...
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... wall . There slept the horn each jocund echo knew , And many a smile and many a story drew ! High o'er the hearth his forest - trophies hung , And their fantastic branches wildly flung . How would he dwell on the vast antlers there ...
... wall . There slept the horn each jocund echo knew , And many a smile and many a story drew ! High o'er the hearth his forest - trophies hung , And their fantastic branches wildly flung . How would he dwell on the vast antlers there ...
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