PoemsEdward Moxon, 1842 - 304 pages |
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... silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! - 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 ...
... silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! - 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 ...
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... silent spot endear ? Mark yon old Mansion frowning thro ' the trees , Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze . That casement , arched with ivy's brownest shade , First to these eyes the light of heaven conveyed . The mouldering ...
... silent spot endear ? Mark yon old Mansion frowning thro ' the trees , Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze . That casement , arched with ivy's brownest shade , First to these eyes the light of heaven conveyed . The mouldering ...
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... silent awe , Her tattered mantle , and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips , her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore , Imps , in the barn with mousing owlet bred , From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ...
... silent awe , Her tattered mantle , and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips , her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore , Imps , in the barn with mousing owlet bred , From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ...
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... silent register ye live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give . 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 ...
... silent register ye live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give . 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 ...
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... silent energy of grief , With looks that asked , yet dared not hope relief , Want with her babes round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , ' Twas thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' twas thine ...
... silent energy of grief , With looks that asked , yet dared not hope relief , Want with her babes round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , ' Twas thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' twas thine ...
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