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... sigh , or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date , as his who traced them here . 1793 . PREDS ...
... sigh , or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date , as his who traced them here . 1793 . PREDS ...
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... live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give . But when the sons of peace , of pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , What spells entrance my visionary mind With sighs so sweet ROGERS ' POEMS . 20 29.
... live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give . But when the sons of peace , of pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , What spells entrance my visionary mind With sighs so sweet ROGERS ' POEMS . 20 29.
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Samuel Rogers. What spells entrance my visionary mind With sighs so sweet , with transports so refined ? Ethereal Power ! who at the noon of night Recall'st the far - fled spirit of delight ; From whom that musing , melancholy mood Which ...
Samuel Rogers. What spells entrance my visionary mind With sighs so sweet , with transports so refined ? Ethereal Power ! who at the noon of night Recall'st the far - fled spirit of delight ; From whom that musing , melancholy mood Which ...
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... sigh ; This makes him wish to live , and dare to die . For this young FOSCARI , whose hapless fate Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate , When exile wore his blooming years away , To sorrow's long soliloquies a prey , When reason ...
... sigh ; This makes him wish to live , and dare to die . For this young FOSCARI , whose hapless fate Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate , When exile wore his blooming years away , To sorrow's long soliloquies a prey , When reason ...
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... sighs . Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm : Say why VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm ; Why great NAVARRE , when France and freedom bled , Sought the lone limits of a forest - shed . When DIOCLETIAN'S self - corrected mind The ...
... sighs . Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm : Say why VESPASIAN loved his Sabine farm ; Why great NAVARRE , when France and freedom bled , Sought the lone limits of a forest - shed . When DIOCLETIAN'S self - corrected mind The ...
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age to age ancient bids bless blest breathe bright called calm CANTO charm child Cicero clouds Columbus Cortes courser dark dear delight dream Euripides father fear fled flowers fond gaze glory glows grave grove hail hand hear heart heaven Hence Herodotus Herrera Hist holy hope and fear hour human voice hung Icarius inspire light live look mighty Wind mind Muse night o'er once Pausanias Petrarch pleasure rapture resigned rise round sacred sail sate says scene secret seraph shade shadow shed shine shore sigh silent sire sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit spring steals stood sung sweet swell tears thee thine thou thought thro trace trembling triumphs truth Twas UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vale VESPASIAN VIRGIL's tomb virtue voice Voyage wake wandering wave weep whence wild wind wings youth