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Page 10
How oft , when purple evening tinged the west , We watched the emmet to her
grainy nest ; Welcomed the wild - bee home on weary wing , Laden with sweets ,
the choicest of the spring ! How oft inscribed , with Friendship's votive rhyme , The
...
How oft , when purple evening tinged the west , We watched the emmet to her
grainy nest ; Welcomed the wild - bee home on weary wing , Laden with sweets ,
the choicest of the spring ! How oft inscribed , with Friendship's votive rhyme , The
...
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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 ...
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... So TULLY paused , amid the wrecks of Time , On the rude stone to trace the
truth sublime ; When at his feet , in honoured dust disclosed , The immortal sage
of Syracuse reposed . And as he long in sweet delusion hung , Where once a
Plato ...
... So TULLY paused , amid the wrecks of Time , On the rude stone to trace the
truth sublime ; When at his feet , in honoured dust disclosed , The immortal sage
of Syracuse reposed . And as he long in sweet delusion hung , Where once a
Plato ...
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The intrepid Swiss , who guards a foreign shore , Condemned to climb his
mountain - cliffs no more , If chance he hears that song so sweet , so wild , His
heart would spring to hear it when a child , Melts at the long - lost scenes that
round him ...
The intrepid Swiss , who guards a foreign shore , Condemned to climb his
mountain - cliffs no more , If chance he hears that song so sweet , so wild , His
heart would spring to hear it when a child , Melts at the long - lost scenes that
round him ...
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Sweet bird ! thy truth shall Harlem's 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 Valour clung , To wring the ...
Sweet bird ! thy truth shall Harlem's 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 Valour clung , To wring the ...
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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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