The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems: From the Last London EdLeavitt, Trow, 1849 - 186 pages |
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... sweet than all the landscape smiling near- " Tis distance lends enchantment to the view , And robes the mountain in its azure hue . Thus , with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus , from afar ...
... sweet than all the landscape smiling near- " Tis distance lends enchantment to the view , And robes the mountain in its azure hue . Thus , with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus , from afar ...
Page 10
... sweet HOPE ! resides the heavenly light , That pours remotest rapture on the sight ; Thine is the charm of life's ... sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil , a charm for every wo ; Won by their sweets , in Nature's languid hour , The ...
... sweet HOPE ! resides the heavenly light , That pours remotest rapture on the sight ; Thine is the charm of life's ... sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil , a charm for every wo ; Won by their sweets , in Nature's languid hour , The ...
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... sweets distil , Nor bloomy vines wave purple on the hill ; Tell , that when silent years have pass'd away , That when his eye grows dim , his tresses gray , These busy hands a lovelier cot shall build , And deck with fairer flowers his ...
... sweets distil , Nor bloomy vines wave purple on the hill ; Tell , that when silent years have pass'd away , That when his eye grows dim , his tresses gray , These busy hands a lovelier cot shall build , And deck with fairer flowers his ...
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... sweet mourner ! at my stone appear , And soothe my parted spirit lingering near ? Oh , wilt thou come , at evening hour to shed The tears of Memory o'er my narrow bed ; With aching temples on thy hand reclined , Muse on the last ...
... sweet mourner ! at my stone appear , And soothe my parted spirit lingering near ? Oh , wilt thou come , at evening hour to shed The tears of Memory o'er my narrow bed ; With aching temples on thy hand reclined , Muse on the last ...
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... Tis yours , unmoved , to sever and to meet ; No pledge is sacred , and no home is sweet ! Who that would ask a heart to dulness wed , The waveless calm , the slumber of the dead ? No ; the wild bliss of Nature needs alloy ,
... Tis yours , unmoved , to sever and to meet ; No pledge is sacred , and no home is sweet ! Who that would ask a heart to dulness wed , The waveless calm , the slumber of the dead ? No ; the wild bliss of Nature needs alloy ,
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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