The Pleasures of Memory, with Other PoemsSimms & M'Intyre, 1830 - 84 pages |
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Page 34
... Fancy's flights are subject to thy laws ; From thee that bosom - spring of rapture flows , Which only Virtue , tranquil Virtue , knows.MAT When Joy's bright sun has shed his evening ray , And Hope's delusive meteors cease to play ; When ...
... Fancy's flights are subject to thy laws ; From thee that bosom - spring of rapture flows , Which only Virtue , tranquil Virtue , knows.MAT When Joy's bright sun has shed his evening ray , And Hope's delusive meteors cease to play ; When ...
Page 36
... Fancy's bright Elysium glows , From Her each image springs , each colour flows , YDEL She is the sacred guest ! the immortal friend ! Oft seen o'er sleeping Innocence to bend ,. In that dead hour of night to Silence given , Whispering ...
... Fancy's bright Elysium glows , From Her each image springs , each colour flows , YDEL She is the sacred guest ! the immortal friend ! Oft seen o'er sleeping Innocence to bend ,. In that dead hour of night to Silence given , Whispering ...
Page 38
... Fancy's golden clime , Or , musing , mount where Science sits sublime , Or wake the spirit of departed Time .. Who acts thus wisely , ( mark the moral muse , ) A blooming Eden in his life reviews ! So rich the culture , though so small ...
... Fancy's golden clime , Or , musing , mount where Science sits sublime , Or wake the spirit of departed Time .. Who acts thus wisely , ( mark the moral muse , ) A blooming Eden in his life reviews ! So rich the culture , though so small ...
Page 50
... Fancy's fairy frost - work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art , the grasp of Power , Snatch the rich relics of a well - spent hour ? These , when the trembling spirit wings her flight , Pour round her path a stream of living light ...
... Fancy's fairy frost - work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art , the grasp of Power , Snatch the rich relics of a well - spent hour ? These , when the trembling spirit wings her flight , Pour round her path a stream of living light ...
Page 70
... Fancy's idle dream , In Reason's philosophic page . That very law which moulds a tear , And bids it trickle from its source , That law preserves the earth a sphere , And guides the planets in their course . * The law of gravitation ...
... Fancy's idle dream , In Reason's philosophic page . That very law which moulds a tear , And bids it trickle from its source , That law preserves the earth a sphere , And guides the planets in their course . * The law of gravitation ...
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adieu Alps antler bend blest breast breathed breeze bright calm cell charm charm'd chase cliff clime colours confest delight dews dusky dwell enchanting endears fade fairy Fancy Fancy's feeling fled Florio fond Foscari gale gaze Gild glade glows Gout gray grove hail hanging wood Hark heart Heaven Hence Hist honest hour hues hung Innocence inspire joys kindred light live lustre magic maid Maximian melancholy melts Meteor mild mind mould musing native Navarre nest NOTE o'er pensive PLEASURES OF MEMORY rapture repose resign'd Richelieu round rude sacred sail scene seraphic shade shed sigh silent sleep smile soft sooth sorrows soul sphere spirit spring steals sublime sweet swell tale tears thee thine thou thought trace trembling triumph truth Twas vale Venice Virgil's tomb Virtue wake wave weep Whence whisper wild wing youth