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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... sleep , Beneath the alder tree . VI . This little dirge will please me more Than the full requiem's swelling peal ; I'd rather than that crouds should sigh For me , that from some kindred eye The trickling tear should steal . VII . Yet ...
... sleep , Beneath the alder tree . VI . This little dirge will please me more Than the full requiem's swelling peal ; I'd rather than that crouds should sigh For me , that from some kindred eye The trickling tear should steal . VII . Yet ...
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... sleep the waters on their pebbly bed , The woods wave gently o'er my drooping head , And swelling slow , comes wafted on the wind , Lorn Progne's note from distant copse behind . Still , every rising sound of calm delight Stamps but the ...
... sleep the waters on their pebbly bed , The woods wave gently o'er my drooping head , And swelling slow , comes wafted on the wind , Lorn Progne's note from distant copse behind . Still , every rising sound of calm delight Stamps but the ...
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... sleep oppress'd each weary frame . In vain they strove against the o'erwhelming load , Some power unseen their drowsy lids bestrode . They slept , ' till in the blushing eastern sky The bloomy morning oped her dewy eye ; Then wakening ...
... sleep oppress'd each weary frame . In vain they strove against the o'erwhelming load , Some power unseen their drowsy lids bestrode . They slept , ' till in the blushing eastern sky The bloomy morning oped her dewy eye ; Then wakening ...
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... sleeping on thy grave , And on the turf thy lover sad is kneeling , The big tear in his eye . — Mary awake , From thy dark house arise , and bless his sight On the pale moonbeam gliding . Soft , and low , Pour on the silver ear of night ...
... sleeping on thy grave , And on the turf thy lover sad is kneeling , The big tear in his eye . — Mary awake , From thy dark house arise , and bless his sight On the pale moonbeam gliding . Soft , and low , Pour on the silver ear of night ...
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... sleep with thee in death . MY STUDY , A Letter in Hudibrastic Verse . YOU bid me , Ned , describe the place Where I , one of the rhyming race , Pursue my studies con amore , And wanton with the muse in glory . Well , figure to your ...
... sleep with thee in death . MY STUDY , A Letter in Hudibrastic Verse . YOU bid me , Ned , describe the place Where I , one of the rhyming race , Pursue my studies con amore , And wanton with the muse in glory . Well , figure to your ...
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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...