The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems: From the Last London EdLeavitt, Trow, 1849 - 186 pages |
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... cried , my bleeding country save ! - Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet , though destruction sweep those lovely plains , Rise , fellow - men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name , we wave the sword on high ...
... cried , my bleeding country save ! - Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet , though destruction sweep those lovely plains , Rise , fellow - men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name , we wave the sword on high ...
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... cries of death each gentle gale , And bathed in blood the verdure of the vale ! Yet could no pangs the immortal spirit tame , When Brama's children perish'd for his name ; The martyr smiled beneath avenging power , And braved the tyrant ...
... cries of death each gentle gale , And bathed in blood the verdure of the vale ! Yet could no pangs the immortal spirit tame , When Brama's children perish'd for his name ; The martyr smiled beneath avenging power , And braved the tyrant ...
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... cries ; Could lock , with impious hands , their teeming store , While famish'd nations died along the shore ; ( 13 ) Could mock the groans of fellow - men , and bear The curse of kingdoms peopled with despair ; Could stamp disgrace on ...
... cries ; Could lock , with impious hands , their teeming store , While famish'd nations died along the shore ; ( 13 ) Could mock the groans of fellow - men , and bear The curse of kingdoms peopled with despair ; Could stamp disgrace on ...
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... 'd his darling child ! Oh ! Mercy , shield her innocence , he cried , spent on the prayer his bursting heart , and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor , ( 3 ) and pleads for 42 PLEASURES OF HOPE .
... 'd his darling child ! Oh ! Mercy , shield her innocence , he cried , spent on the prayer his bursting heart , and died ! Or they will learn how generous worth sublimes The robber Moor , ( 3 ) and pleads for 42 PLEASURES OF HOPE .
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... cried : Oh ! that for thee thy father could have died ! For bloody was the deed , and rashly done , That slew my Absalom ! -my son ! -my son ! Unfading HOPE ! when life's last embers burn , When soul to soul , and dust to dust return ...
... cried : Oh ! that for thee thy father could have died ! For bloody was the deed , and rashly done , That slew my Absalom ! -my son ! -my son ! Unfading HOPE ! when life's last embers burn , When soul to soul , and dust to dust return ...
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ANTISTROPHE ARGYLESHIRE arms battle beauty Beauty's beneath bleeding bliss bosom bower brave breath bright brother brow burst charm child clime Connocht Moran's CONSTANCE cried Culloden dark death deep despair dread dream e'en earth Erin Erin go bragh fame fate fire glaciers Glenara glow grief hand harp hath heart Heaven heavenly Highland HOPE hour Innisfail Irish isles JULIA kindred land life's light Lochiel lonely LOVE LIES BLEEDING Love's Loxian lyre MEDEA mind mountain murmuring Muse native Nature Nature's night NOTE numbers O'Connor's o'er pass'd peace pensive pride proud psaltery rapture rocks sacred scene scorn second sight shore sigh sight slumber smile song sorrow soul spirit Stamp'd storm stormy tempests blow sublime sweep sweet sword tears thee THEODRIC thine thou thought trembling triumph Twas UDOLPH vale VERSE Vex'd vision wave weep Western Isles wild winds