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Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When thro ' the world it steals
its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh ,
or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one ...
Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When thro ' the world it steals
its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh ,
or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one ...
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But when the sons of peace , of pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and
wakes to weep , What spells entrance my visionary mind With sighs so sweet ,
with transports so refined ? Ethereal Power ! who at the noon of night Recall'st
the ...
But when the sons of peace , of pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and
wakes to weep , What spells entrance my visionary mind With sighs so sweet ,
with transports so refined ? Ethereal Power ! who at the noon of night Recall'st
the ...
Page 17
Hence home - felt pleasure prompts the Patriot's sigh ; This makes him wish to
live , and dare to die . For this young FOSCARI , whose hapless fate Venice
should blush to hear the Muse relate , D When exile wore his blooming years
away , To ...
Hence home - felt pleasure prompts the Patriot's sigh ; This makes him wish to
live , and dare to die . For this young FOSCARI , whose hapless fate Venice
should blush to hear the Muse relate , D When exile wore his blooming years
away , To ...
Page 19
... to repentant sighs . Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm : Say why
VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm ; Why great NAVARRE , when France and
freedom bled , 19.
... to repentant sighs . Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm : Say why
VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm ; Why great NAVARRE , when France and
freedom bled , 19.
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... the light dance and swell the choral song ; With rapt ear drink the enchanting
serenade , And , as it melts along the moonlight - glade , To each soft note return
as soft a sigh , 28.
... the light dance and swell the choral song ; With rapt ear drink the enchanting
serenade , And , as it melts along the moonlight - glade , To each soft note return
as soft a sigh , 28.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems |
| Author | Samuel Rogers |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Edward Moxon, 1842 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 24 Nov 2016 |
| Length | 304 pages |
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