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... known ; but - No delay ! On , ' tis decreed . We tremble and obey . A thousand ills beset us as we go . - “ Still , could I shun the fatal gulf ” -Ah , no , " Tis all in vain — the inexorable Law ! Nearer and nearer to the brink we draw ...
... known ; but - No delay ! On , ' tis decreed . We tremble and obey . A thousand ills beset us as we go . - “ Still , could I shun the fatal gulf ” -Ah , no , " Tis all in vain — the inexorable Law ! Nearer and nearer to the brink we draw ...
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... known ; The flower of Knighthood , nipt as soon as blown ! Melting all hearts but Geraldine's alone ! And , with his beaver up , discovering there One who loved less to conquer than to spare , Lo , the Black Warrior , he , who , battle ...
... known ; The flower of Knighthood , nipt as soon as blown ! Melting all hearts but Geraldine's alone ! And , with his beaver up , discovering there One who loved less to conquer than to spare , Lo , the Black Warrior , he , who , battle ...
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... known form along the terrace stealing . -Oh , ere in sight he came , ' twas his to thrill A heart that loved him though in secret still . " Am I awake ? or is it .. can it be “ An idle dream that nightly visits me ? " That strain ...
... known form along the terrace stealing . -Oh , ere in sight he came , ' twas his to thrill A heart that loved him though in secret still . " Am I awake ? or is it .. can it be “ An idle dream that nightly visits me ? " That strain ...
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... , unseen , the least Twitches her robe , then runs behind the rest , Known by her laugh that will not be suppressed . ה Then before All they stand - the holy vow And 32 Then are they blest indeed; and swift the hours ...
... , unseen , the least Twitches her robe , then runs behind the rest , Known by her laugh that will not be suppressed . ה Then before All they stand - the holy vow And 32 Then are they blest indeed; and swift the hours ...
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... known . Through the wide world he only is alone Who lives not for another . Come what will , The generous man has his companion still ; The cricket on his hearth ; the buzzing fly That skims his roof , or , be his roof the sky , Still ...
... known . Through the wide world he only is alone Who lives not for another . Come what will , The generous man has his companion still ; The cricket on his hearth ; the buzzing fly That skims his roof , or , be his roof the sky , Still ...
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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.