The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems: From the Last London EdLeavitt, Trow, 1849 - 186 pages |
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... Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below , Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye , Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the ...
... Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below , Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye , Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the ...
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... Heaven again ; All , all forsook the friendless guilty mind , But HOPE , the charmer , linger'd still behind . Thus , while Elijah's burning wheels prepare From Carmel's heights to sweep the fields of air , The prophet's mantle , ere ...
... Heaven again ; All , all forsook the friendless guilty mind , But HOPE , the charmer , linger'd still behind . Thus , while Elijah's burning wheels prepare From Carmel's heights to sweep the fields of air , The prophet's mantle , ere ...
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... Heaven ! ( thy winged words pre claim ) " Tis thine to search the boundless fields of fame ! Lo ! Newton , priest of nature , shines afar , Scans the wide world , and numbers every star i Wilt thou , with him , mysterious rites apply ...
... Heaven ! ( thy winged words pre claim ) " Tis thine to search the boundless fields of fame ! Lo ! Newton , priest of nature , shines afar , Scans the wide world , and numbers every star i Wilt thou , with him , mysterious rites apply ...
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... Heaven's command , the wanderers came To Eden's shade , and heard their various name . " Far from the world , in yon sequester'd clime , Slow pass the sons of Wisdom , more sublime ; Calm as the fields of Heaven his sapient eye The ...
... Heaven's command , the wanderers came To Eden's shade , and heard their various name . " Far from the world , in yon sequester'd clime , Slow pass the sons of Wisdom , more sublime ; Calm as the fields of Heaven his sapient eye The ...
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... Heaven ! the smiling Muse shall shed Her moonlight halo on thy beauteous head ; Shall swell thy heart to rapture unconfined , And breathe a holy madness o'er thy mind . I see thee roam her guardian power beneath , And talk with spirits ...
... Heaven ! the smiling Muse shall shed Her moonlight halo on thy beauteous head ; Shall swell thy heart to rapture unconfined , And breathe a holy madness o'er thy mind . I see thee roam her guardian power beneath , And talk with spirits ...
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