PoemsEdward Moxon, 1842 - 304 pages |
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... 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 faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date ...
... 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 faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date ...
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... 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 fractured pediment revealed , Where moss inlays the rudely - sculptured shield ...
... 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 fractured pediment revealed , Where moss inlays the rudely - sculptured shield ...
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... with venerable rust ; Those once - loved forms , still breathing thro ' their dust , Still , from the frame in mould gigantic cast , Starting to life - all whisper of the Past ! C As thro ' the garden's desert paths I rove , 9.
... with venerable rust ; Those once - loved forms , still breathing thro ' their dust , Still , from the frame in mould gigantic cast , Starting to life - all whisper of the Past ! C As thro ' the garden's desert paths I rove , 9.
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... once known - To bless is to be blest ! We led the bending beggar on his way , ( Bare were his feet , his tresses silver - grey ) Soothed the keen pangs his aged spirit felt , And on his tale with mute attention dwelt . As in his scrip ...
... once known - To bless is to be blest ! We led the bending beggar on his way , ( Bare were his feet , his tresses silver - grey ) Soothed the keen pangs his aged spirit felt , And on his tale with mute attention dwelt . As in his scrip ...
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... once o'ercast , At once illumined when the cloud is past . Survey the globe , each ruder realm explore ; From Reason's faintest ray to NEWTON soar . What different spheres to human bliss assigned ! What slow gradations in the scale of ...
... once o'ercast , At once illumined when the cloud is past . Survey the globe , each ruder realm explore ; From Reason's faintest ray to NEWTON soar . What different spheres to human bliss assigned ! What slow gradations in the scale of ...
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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