The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems: From the Last London EdLeavitt, Trow, 1849 - 186 pages |
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... weeps to give no more , Tell that his manly race shall yet assuage Their father's wrongs , and shield his latter age . What though for him no Hybla sweets distil , Nor bloomy vines wave purple on the hill ; Tell , that when silent years ...
... weeps to give no more , Tell that his manly race shall yet assuage Their father's wrongs , and shield his latter age . What though for him no Hybla sweets distil , Nor bloomy vines wave purple on the hill ; Tell , that when silent years ...
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... 'd the midnight sky , And the lone sea - bird wakes its wildest cry , Piled on the steep , her blazing fagots burn To hail the bark that never can return ; And still she waits , but scarce forbears to weep PLEASURES OF HOPE . 2.
... 'd the midnight sky , And the lone sea - bird wakes its wildest cry , Piled on the steep , her blazing fagots burn To hail the bark that never can return ; And still she waits , but scarce forbears to weep PLEASURES OF HOPE . 2.
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... weep That constant love can linger on the deep . And , mark the wretch , whose wanderings never knew The world's regard , that soothes , though half un true , Whose èrring heart the lash of sorrow bore , But found not pity when it err'd ...
... weep That constant love can linger on the deep . And , mark the wretch , whose wanderings never knew The world's regard , that soothes , though half un true , Whose èrring heart the lash of sorrow bore , But found not pity when it err'd ...
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... deep , To call upon his country's name , and weep ! — Lo ! once in triumph , on his boundless plain , The quiver'd chief of Congo loved to reign ; With fires proportion'd to his native sky , Strength in PLEASURES OF HOPE . 27.
... deep , To call upon his country's name , and weep ! — Lo ! once in triumph , on his boundless plain , The quiver'd chief of Congo loved to reign ; With fires proportion'd to his native sky , Strength in PLEASURES OF HOPE . 27.
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... weeps the night away , And when the sea - wind wafts the dewless day , Starts , with a bursting heart , for evermore To curse the sun that lights their guilty shore ! The shrill horn blew ; ( 10 ) at that alarum knell His guardian angel ...
... weeps the night away , And when the sea - wind wafts the dewless day , Starts , with a bursting heart , for evermore To curse the sun that lights their guilty shore ! The shrill horn blew ; ( 10 ) at that alarum knell His guardian angel ...
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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