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... dark eyes declining , by his side Moves in her virgin - veil the gentle bride . And once , alas , nor in a distant hour , Another voice shall come from yonder tower ; When in dim chambers long black weeds are seen , And weepings heard ...
... dark eyes declining , by his side Moves in her virgin - veil the gentle bride . And once , alas , nor in a distant hour , Another voice shall come from yonder tower ; When in dim chambers long black weeds are seen , And weepings heard ...
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... dark before , all desolate behind ! At length the brink appears - but one step more ! We faint - On , on ! -we falter - and ' tis o'er ! Yet here high passions , high desires unfold , Prompting to noblest deeds ; here links of gold Bind ...
... dark before , all desolate behind ! At length the brink appears - but one step more ! We faint - On , on ! -we falter - and ' tis o'er ! Yet here high passions , high desires unfold , Prompting to noblest deeds ; here links of gold Bind ...
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... darkness as he journies on , Nothing revives him but the blessed ray That now breaks in , nor ever knows decay , Sent from a better world to light him on his way . How great the Mystery ! Let others sing The circling Year , the promise ...
... darkness as he journies on , Nothing revives him but the blessed ray That now breaks in , nor ever knows decay , Sent from a better world to light him on his way . How great the Mystery ! Let others sing The circling Year , the promise ...
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... darkness on the desert fell , In their long march , such as the Prophet bids , To Mecca from the Land of Pyramids , And in an instant lost - a hollow wave Of burning sand their everlasting grave ! — Now the scene shifts to Venice - to a ...
... darkness on the desert fell , In their long march , such as the Prophet bids , To Mecca from the Land of Pyramids , And in an instant lost - a hollow wave Of burning sand their everlasting grave ! — Now the scene shifts to Venice - to a ...
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... dark . ' BOYLE'S Works , I. 789 . NOTE d . Page 19 , line 1 . Schooled and trained up to Wisdom from his birth ; Cicero , in his Essay De Senectute , has drawn his images from the better walks of life ; and Shakspeare , in his Seven ...
... dark . ' BOYLE'S Works , I. 789 . NOTE d . Page 19 , line 1 . Schooled and trained up to Wisdom from his birth ; Cicero , in his Essay De Senectute , has drawn his images from the better walks of life ; and Shakspeare , in his Seven ...
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Page 72 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 20 - Locked in her arms, his arms across her flung, (That name most dear for ever on his tongue) As with soft accents round her neck he clings, And, cheek to cheek, her lulling song she sings, How blest to feel the beatings of his heart, Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart ; Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love!
Page 72 - Her parents, the duke and duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber, reading...
Page 34 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly— pour A thousand melodies unheard before...
Page 21 - Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart : Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love ! But soon a nobler task demands her care, Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there. And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye — now many a written thought, Never to die, with many a lisping sweet, His moving, murmuring lips endeavour to repeat.
Page 65 - When by a good man's grave I muse alone, Methinks an Angel sits upon the stone ; Like those of old, on that thrice-hallowed night, Who sate and watched in raiment heavenly bright ; And, with a voice inspiring joy not fear, Says, pointing upward,
Page 8 - For now the caudle-cup is circling there, Now, glad at heart, the gossips breathe their prayer, And, crowding, stop the cradle to admire The babe, the sleeping image of his sire. A few short years — and then these sounds shall hail The day again, and gladness fill the vale ; So soon the child a youth, the youth a man, Eager to run the race his fathers ran. Then the huge ox shall yield the broad sirloin ; The ale...
Page 73 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.