PoemsEdward Moxon, 1842 - 304 pages |
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Page 35
... never know ; In gentler climes their silver currents flow . Oft at the silent , shadowy close of day , When the hushed grove has sung its parting lay ; When pensive Twilight , in her dusky car , Comes slowly on to meet the evening ...
... never know ; In gentler climes their silver currents flow . Oft at the silent , shadowy close of day , When the hushed grove has sung its parting lay ; When pensive Twilight , in her dusky car , Comes slowly on to meet the evening ...
Page 44
... never aimed to 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 expressed ; When thy last look , ere thought and ...
... never aimed to 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 expressed ; When thy last look , ere thought and ...
Page 52
... never add any embellishment ; ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetudini deperiret . - SUET . in Vit . Vesp . cap . ii . A similar instance occurs in the life of the venerable Pertinax , as related by J. Capitolinus . " Posteaquam in ...
... never add any embellishment ; ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetudini deperiret . - SUET . in Vit . Vesp . cap . ii . A similar instance occurs in the life of the venerable Pertinax , as related by J. Capitolinus . " Posteaquam in ...
Page 70
... Never to die , with many a lisping sweet His moving , murmuring lips endeavour to repeat . Released , he chases the bright butterfly ; Oh he would follow - follow through the sky ! Climbs the gaunt mastiff slumbering in his chain , And ...
... Never to die , with many a lisping sweet His moving , murmuring lips endeavour to repeat . Released , he chases the bright butterfly ; Oh he would follow - follow through the sky ! Climbs the gaunt mastiff slumbering in his chain , And ...
Page 82
... never see ! At length the Father , vain his power to save , Follows his child in silence to the grave , ( That child how cherished , whom he would not give , Sleeping the sleep of death , for All that live ; ) Takes a last look , when ...
... never see ! At length the Father , vain his power to save , Follows his child in silence to the grave , ( That child how cherished , whom he would not give , Sleeping the sleep of death , for All that live ; ) Takes a last look , when ...
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