PoemsEdward Moxon, 1842 - 304 pages |
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... light , he , who feels the infirmities of age , dwells most on whatever reminds him of the vigour and vivacity of his youth . The associating principle , as here employed , is no less conducive to virtue than to happiness ; and , as ...
... light , he , who feels the infirmities of age , dwells most on whatever reminds him of the vigour and vivacity of his youth . The associating principle , as here employed , is no less conducive to virtue than to happiness ; and , as ...
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... light of heaven conveyed . The mouldering gateway strews the grass - growncourt , Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When nature pleased , for life itself was new , And the heart promised what the fancy drew . See , thro ' the ...
... light of heaven conveyed . The mouldering gateway strews the grass - growncourt , Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When nature pleased , for life itself was new , And the heart promised what the fancy drew . See , thro ' the ...
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... Light can give . Thou first , best friend that Heaven assigns below To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know ; Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm , When nature fades , and life forgets to charm ; Thee would the Muse invoke ...
... Light can give . Thou first , best friend that Heaven assigns below To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know ; Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm , When nature fades , and life forgets to charm ; Thee would the Muse invoke ...
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... light to shed , Where now the sexton rests his hoary head . Oft , as he turned the greensward with his spade , He lectured every youth that round him played ; And , calmly pointing where our fathers lay , Roused us to rival each , the ...
... light to shed , Where now the sexton rests his hoary head . Oft , as he turned the greensward with his spade , He lectured every youth that round him played ; And , calmly pointing where our fathers lay , Roused us to rival each , the ...
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... light ; But now the morn with orient hues pourtrayed Each castled cliff , and brown monastic shade : All touched the talisman's resistless spring , And lo , what busy tribes were instant on the wing ! Thus kindred objects kindred ...
... light ; But now the morn with orient hues pourtrayed Each castled cliff , and brown monastic shade : All touched the talisman's resistless spring , And lo , what busy tribes were instant on the wing ! Thus kindred objects kindred ...
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Ęschylus age to age ancient bids bless blest breathe bright called calm CANTO charm child Cicero clouds Columbus controul Cortes courser dark delight 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 Plato pleasure R.A. Goodall rapture resigned rise round sacred sail sate says scene secret seraph shade shadow shed shine shore sigh silent 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