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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... Spirits " To a Taper " Yes ! ' twill be over soon " To Consumption • 66 Thy judgments , Lord , are just " • • 106 · . 107 · 108 POEMS OF A LATER DATE . To a Friend in Distress , who , when Henry reasoned with him calmly , asked , if he ...
... Spirits " To a Taper " Yes ! ' twill be over soon " To Consumption • 66 Thy judgments , Lord , are just " • • 106 · . 107 · 108 POEMS OF A LATER DATE . To a Friend in Distress , who , when Henry reasoned with him calmly , asked , if he ...
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... Spirit of her ! My only love ! -O ! now again arise , And let once more thine aëry accents fall Soft on my listening ear . The night is calm , The gloomy willows wave in sinking cadence With the stream that sweeps below . Divinely ...
... Spirit of her ! My only love ! -O ! now again arise , And let once more thine aëry accents fall Soft on my listening ear . The night is calm , The gloomy willows wave in sinking cadence With the stream that sweeps below . Divinely ...
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... spirits howling on their stormy car , Will often ring appalling - I portend A dismal night - and on my wakeful bed Thoughts , Traveller , of thee , will fill my head , And him , who rides where wind and waves contend , And strives ...
... spirits howling on their stormy car , Will often ring appalling - I portend A dismal night - and on my wakeful bed Thoughts , Traveller , of thee , will fill my head , And him , who rides where wind and waves contend , And strives ...
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... often bears with sudden swell The shipwreck'd sailor's funeral knell , By the spirits sung who keep Their night watch on the treacherous deep , VOL . II . F And guide the wakeful Helms - man's eye To Helice Ode to H Fuseli, Esq R.
... often bears with sudden swell The shipwreck'd sailor's funeral knell , By the spirits sung who keep Their night watch on the treacherous deep , VOL . II . F And guide the wakeful Helms - man's eye To Helice Ode to H Fuseli, Esq R.
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... spirit , Who shall now thy wand inherit , From him thy darling child who best Thy shuddering images exprest ? Sullen of soul and stern and proud , His gloomy spirit spurn'd the croud , And now he lays his aching head In the dark mansion ...
... spirit , Who shall now thy wand inherit , From him thy darling child who best Thy shuddering images exprest ? Sullen of soul and stern and proud , His gloomy spirit spurn'd the croud , And now he lays his aching head In the dark mansion ...
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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...