The Remains of Henry Kirke White ; of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, CambridgeVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1807 - 320 pages |
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... mortal saw before , And such a sight as she saw there , No mortal shall see more . A burning cauldron stood in the midst , The flame was fierce , and high , And all the cave so wide and long , Was plainly seen thereby . And round about ...
... mortal saw before , And such a sight as she saw there , No mortal shall see more . A burning cauldron stood in the midst , The flame was fierce , and high , And all the cave so wide and long , Was plainly seen thereby . And round about ...
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... can it soothe the slumbers of the grave ? Give a new zest to bliss ? or chase the pangs Of everlasting punishment condign ? Alas ! how vain are mortal man's desires ! How fruitless his pursuits ! Eternal God ! Guide thou 45 PAGE.
... can it soothe the slumbers of the grave ? Give a new zest to bliss ? or chase the pangs Of everlasting punishment condign ? Alas ! how vain are mortal man's desires ! How fruitless his pursuits ! Eternal God ! Guide thou 45 PAGE.
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... mortal join The hallelujahs of the risen God ? Will the faint voice and grovelling song be heard Amid the seraphim in light divine ? Yes , he will deign , the Prince of Peace will deign , For mercy , to accept the hymn of faith , Low ...
... mortal join The hallelujahs of the risen God ? Will the faint voice and grovelling song be heard Amid the seraphim in light divine ? Yes , he will deign , the Prince of Peace will deign , For mercy , to accept the hymn of faith , Low ...
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Henry Kirke White. III . The silvery rack that flies away , Like mortal life or pleasure's ray , Does that disturb my breast ? Nay what have I , a studious man , To do with life's unstable plan , Or pleasure's fading vest ? IV . Is it ...
Henry Kirke White. III . The silvery rack that flies away , Like mortal life or pleasure's ray , Does that disturb my breast ? Nay what have I , a studious man , To do with life's unstable plan , Or pleasure's fading vest ? IV . Is it ...
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... mortal man , unpurged from earthly dross , Cannot survey , with fix'd and steady eye , The dim uncertain gulph , which now the muse , Adventurous , would explore ; -but dizzy grown , He topples down the abyss . — If he would scan The ...
... mortal man , unpurged from earthly dross , Cannot survey , with fix'd and steady eye , The dim uncertain gulph , which now the muse , Adventurous , would explore ; -but dizzy grown , He topples down the abyss . — If he would scan The ...
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art thou Behold beneath breast breeze calm CAPEL LOFFT charms cheek CHRISTIAD CLIFTON GROVE clouds croud dark dear death deep delight dirge distant dost dread drear Eolian eternal faint fancy fear feel flame gale Genius gleam gloom Gondoline grave groves harp hath head hear heard heart Heaven holy honours hour joys lazy Kate life's light lonely loud lyre maid melancholy mighty mind moon mortal mournful muse never night o'er pain pale pangs peace pensive pleasure Poems poet Pythagoras Quatorzain rest rise River Trent round scene serene shade sigh sight silent sleep slumbers smile soft solemn solitary solitude song SONNET soothe sorrow soul sound spirit star of Bethlehem steal storm stream sublime sweet sweetly tale tear tell thee thine thought throne twas vale vault of death wakeful wandering wave weep wild winds wing wrapt youth
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Page 128 - 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. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How...
Page 124 - When, marshalled on the nightly plain, The glittering host bestud the sky, One Star alone, of all the train, Can fix the sinner's wandering eye. Hark ! hark ! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem ; But one alone the Saviour speaks, It is the star of Bethlehem.
Page 195 - 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 209 - 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 198 - 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 196 - 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 125 - 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 moor'd, my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, For ever, and for evermore, The star, the star of Bethlehem ! THE HIDING-PLACE.
Page 206 - Through Pope's soft song though all the Graces breathe, And happiest art adorn his Attic page; Yet does my mind with sweeter transport glow, As at the root of mossy trunk reclin'd, In magic Spenser's wildly-warbled song I see deserted Una wander wide Through wasteful solitudes, and lurid heaths...
Page 203 - ... and without ornament. The most elegant critic of antiquity, Longinus, in his Treatise on the Sublime, adduces the following passage from the Book of Genesis, as possessing that quality in an eminent degree : " God said let there be light, and there was light : — Let the earth be, and earth Was.
Page 59 - Thou broodest on the calm that cheers the lands, And thou dost bear within thine awful hands The rolling thunders and the lightnings fleet, Stern on thy dark-wrought car of cloud and wind, Thou guid'st the northern storm at night's dead noon, Or on the red wing of the fierce Monsoon, Disturb'st the sleeping giant of the Ind. In the drear silence of the polar span Dost thou repose ? or in the solitude Of sultry tracts, where the lone caravan Hears nightly howl the tiger's hungry brood ? Vain thought...