Clifton Grove. Miscellaneous poems. Time. The Christiad. Prose compositions : Remarks on the English poets. Sternhold and Hopkins. Warton. Cursory remarks on tragedy. Melancholy hours. ReflectionsVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - English literature |
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Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey. This , and the following Poems , are reprinted from the little volume which Henry published in 1803 . 1 ΤΟ HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE , THE.
Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey. This , and the following Poems , are reprinted from the little volume which Henry published in 1803 . 1 ΤΟ HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE , THE.
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Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey. 1 ΤΟ HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE , THE FOLLOWING TRIFLING EFFUSIONS OF A VERY YOUTHFUL MUSE , NOTTINGHAM . ARE BY PERMISSION DEDICATED , By her Grace's MUCH OBLIGED AND GRATEFUL SERVANT , HENRY ...
Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey. 1 ΤΟ HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE , THE FOLLOWING TRIFLING EFFUSIONS OF A VERY YOUTHFUL MUSE , NOTTINGHAM . ARE BY PERMISSION DEDICATED , By her Grace's MUCH OBLIGED AND GRATEFUL SERVANT , HENRY ...
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Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey. This , and the following Poems , are reprinted from the little volume which Henry published in 1803 . TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE , THE FOLLOWING.
Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey. This , and the following Poems , are reprinted from the little volume which Henry published in 1803 . TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE , THE FOLLOWING.
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Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey. TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE , THE FOLLOWING TRIFLING EFFUSIONS OF A VERY YOUTHFUL MUSE , ARE BY PERMISSION DEDICATED , By her Grace's NOTTINGHAM . MUCH OBLIGED AND GRATEFUL SERVANT , HENRY ...
Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey. TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE , THE FOLLOWING TRIFLING EFFUSIONS OF A VERY YOUTHFUL MUSE , ARE BY PERMISSION DEDICATED , By her Grace's NOTTINGHAM . MUCH OBLIGED AND GRATEFUL SERVANT , HENRY ...
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... grace my strain , And give it power to please , as soft it flows Through the smooth murmurs of thy frequent close . SONNET VIII . On hearing the Sounds of an Æolian Harp . SO ravishingly soft upon the tide Of the enfuriate gust , it did ...
... grace my strain , And give it power to please , as soft it flows Through the smooth murmurs of thy frequent close . SONNET VIII . On hearing the Sounds of an Æolian Harp . SO ravishingly soft upon the tide Of the enfuriate gust , it did ...
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Page 106 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 173 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 187 - Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd ' Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those...
Page 175 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 176 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.
Page 175 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Page 174 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 103 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored, my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, For ever and for evermore, The Star, the Star of Bethlehem.
Page 182 - But various Iris, Jove's commands to bear, Speeds on the wings of winds through liquid air : In Priam's porch the Trojan chiefs she found, The old consulting, and the youths around.
Page 131 - Tis passing strange, to mark his fallacies ; Behold him proudly view some pompous pile, Whose high dome swells to emulate the skies, And smile, and say, my name shall live with this Till Time shall be no more...