The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems: From the Last London EdLeavitt, Trow, 1849 - 186 pages |
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... Bursts the wide cry of horror and dismay ! Hark ! as the smouldering piles with thunder fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call ! Earth shook - red meteors flashed along the sky , And conscious Nature shudder'd at the cry ! Oh ...
... Bursts the wide cry of horror and dismay ! Hark ! as the smouldering piles with thunder fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call ! Earth shook - red meteors flashed along the sky , And conscious Nature shudder'd at the cry ! Oh ...
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... deeply scan Heaven's dark decrees , unfathom'd yet by man , When shall the world call down , to cleanse her shame , That embryo spirit , yet without a name , → That friend of Nature , whose avenging Lands Shall burst 26 PLEASURES OF HOPE .
... deeply scan Heaven's dark decrees , unfathom'd yet by man , When shall the world call down , to cleanse her shame , That embryo spirit , yet without a name , → That friend of Nature , whose avenging Lands Shall burst 26 PLEASURES OF HOPE .
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... burst the Libyan's adamantine bands ? Who , sternly marking on his native soil The blood , the tears , the anguish , and the toil , Shall bid each righteous heart exult , to see Peace to the slave , and vengeance on the free ! Yet , yet ...
... burst the Libyan's adamantine bands ? Who , sternly marking on his native soil The blood , the tears , the anguish , and the toil , Shall bid each righteous heart exult , to see Peace to the slave , and vengeance on the free ! Yet , yet ...
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... burst her starry gates again ! He comes ! dread Brama shakes the sunless sky With murmuring wrath , and thunders from on high , Heaven's fiery horse , beneath his warrior form , Paws the light clouds , and gallops on the storm 30 ...
... burst her starry gates again ! He comes ! dread Brama shakes the sunless sky With murmuring wrath , and thunders from on high , Heaven's fiery horse , beneath his warrior form , Paws the light clouds , and gallops on the storm 30 ...
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... burst the ties that bound him to the world ! Turn from his dying words , that smite with steel The shuddering thoughts , or wind them on the wheel- Turn to the gentler melodies that suit Thalia's harp , or Pan's Arcadian lute ; Or ...
... burst the ties that bound him to the world ! Turn from his dying words , that smite with steel The shuddering thoughts , or wind them on the wheel- Turn to the gentler melodies that suit Thalia's harp , or Pan's Arcadian lute ; Or ...
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