PoemsEdward Moxon, 1842 - 304 pages |
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... Hope could grant no more , And chains and torture hailed him to the shore . And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes , and Avon melts the heart . AĆ«rial forms in Tempe's classic vale Glance thro ' the gloom and ...
... Hope could grant no more , And chains and torture hailed him to the shore . And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes , and Avon melts the heart . AĆ«rial forms in Tempe's classic vale Glance thro ' the gloom and ...
Page 22
... hope relief , Want with her babes round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , " Twas thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' twas thine perchance the first to die , Crushed by her meagre hand , when ...
... hope relief , Want with her babes round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , " Twas thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' twas thine perchance the first to die , Crushed by her meagre hand , when ...
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... Hope her airy colouring draws ; And Fancy's flights are subject to thy laws . From Thee that bosom - spring of rapture flows , Which only Virtue , tranquil Virtue , knows . When Joy's bright sun has shed his evening - ray , And Hope's ...
... Hope her airy colouring draws ; And Fancy's flights are subject to thy laws . From Thee that bosom - spring of rapture flows , Which only Virtue , tranquil Virtue , knows . When Joy's bright sun has shed his evening - ray , And Hope's ...
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... Hope's soft energies were felt no more . Yet still how sweet the soothings of his art ! From the rude wall what bright ideas start ! Even now he claims the amaranthine wreath , With scenes that glow , with images that breathe ! And ...
... Hope's soft energies were felt no more . Yet still how sweet the soothings of his art ! From the rude wall what bright ideas start ! Even now he claims the amaranthine wreath , With scenes that glow , with images that breathe ! And ...
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... hope to trace The pensive softness of her angel - face ? Can VIRGIL'S verse , can RAPHAEL'S touch impart Those finer features of the feeling heart , Those tend'rer tints that shun the careless eye And in the world's contagious climate ...
... hope to trace The pensive softness of her angel - face ? Can VIRGIL'S verse , can RAPHAEL'S touch impart Those finer features of the feeling heart , Those tend'rer tints that shun the careless eye And in the world's contagious climate ...
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age to age ancient bids bless blest breathe bright called calm CANTO charm child Cicero clouds Columbus controul Cortes courser dark delight desert shore dream Euripides father fear Finden fled flowers fond gaze glory glows grove hail hand hear heart Heaven Hence Herodotus Herrera Hist holy hope and fear hour human voice hung Icarius inspire light live look mighty Wind mind Muse night o'er once Pausanias Petrarch pleasure R.A. Goodall rapture resigned rise round sacred sail sate says scene secret seraph shade shed shine shore sigh silent sire sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit spring steals stood Stothard sung sweet swell tears thee thine thou thought thro trace trembling triumphs truth Turner Twas vale VESPASIAN VIRGIL's tomb virtue voice wake wandering wave weep whence wild wind wings young youth