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... Propitious Power ! when rankling cares annoy The sacred home of Hymenean joy ; When doom'd to Poverty's sequester'd dell , The wedded pair of love and virtue dwell , B Unpitied by the world , unknown to fame , Their PLEASURES OF HOPE . 25.
... Propitious Power ! when rankling cares annoy The sacred home of Hymenean joy ; When doom'd to Poverty's sequester'd dell , The wedded pair of love and virtue dwell , B Unpitied by the world , unknown to fame , Their PLEASURES OF HOPE . 25.
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... doom'd to gaze on beauties that adorn The smile of triumph or the frown of scorn ; While Memory watches o'er the sad review , Of joys that faded like the morning dew ; - Peace may depart — and life and nature seem A barren path , a ...
... doom'd to gaze on beauties that adorn The smile of triumph or the frown of scorn ; While Memory watches o'er the sad review , Of joys that faded like the morning dew ; - Peace may depart — and life and nature seem A barren path , a ...
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... Doom'd on his airy path a while to burn , And doom'd , like thee , to travel , and return . Hark ! from the world's exploding centre driven , With sounds that shook the firmament of Heaven , Careers the fiery giant , fast and far , On ...
... Doom'd on his airy path a while to burn , And doom'd , like thee , to travel , and return . Hark ! from the world's exploding centre driven , With sounds that shook the firmament of Heaven , Careers the fiery giant , fast and far , On ...
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... Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep , Swift as the tempest travels on the deep , To know Delight but by her parting smile , And toil , and wish , and weep a little while ; Then melt , ye elements , that form'd in vain This ...
... Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep , Swift as the tempest travels on the deep , To know Delight but by her parting smile , And toil , and wish , and weep a little while ; Then melt , ye elements , that form'd in vain This ...
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... Doom'd the long isles of Sydney - cove to see , The martyr of his crimes , but true to thee ? Thrice the sad father tore thee from his heart , And thrice return'd , to bless thee , and to part ; Thrice from his trembling lips he murmur ...
... Doom'd the long isles of Sydney - cove to see , The martyr of his crimes , but true to thee ? Thrice the sad father tore thee from his heart , And thrice return'd , to bless thee , and to part ; Thrice from his trembling lips he murmur ...
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Absalom adamantine adieu afar ANTISTROPHE Arion Avatar bark beauty Beauty's blazing bleed bliss bosom bowers Brama brave bright Briton brow burst cease charm charm'd child clime command deed deep delight doom'd dread dust dust return earth eternal evermore faggots fate fire friendless Gilderoy glow hail hallow'd hand Hark Hast thou hath heart Heath Heaven heavenly Hindoo hour hurl'd isles life's light lingering lisps lonely Loxian lyre MEDEA Mercy midnight mingles murmur Muse Nature Nature's NOTE numbers o'er pang parricide Peace pensive Plato PLEASURES OF HOPE Prague PRINTED FOR LONGMAN proud rapture rocks sacred sapient scene seraph shade shalt shore sigh sister band slumber smile soothe sorrow soul spirit spirit burn storm strings sublime sweep sweet tears thee thine THOMAS CAMPBELL trembling triumph Truth unfathom'd vale watch wave weep wheels wild winds wing wounded Hussar wretch
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Page 74 - UNFADING Hope ! when life's last embers burn, When soul to soul, and dust to dust return, Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour ! Oh ! then thy kingdom comes, Immortal Power ! What though each spark of earth-born rapture fly The quivering lip, pale cheek, and closing eye ! Bright to the soul thy seraph hands convey The morning dream of life's eternal day — Then, then, the triumph and the trance begin ! And all the Phoenix spirit burns within...
Page 10 - ... scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been ! And every form, that fancy can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can wisdom lend, with all her...
Page 26 - Wilt thou, 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 farewell I leave behind, Breathe a deep sigh to winds that murmur low, And think on all my love, and all my woe...
Page 35 - Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm. Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge or death...
Page 49 - Could mock the groans of fellow-men, and bear The curse of kingdoms peopled with despair ! Could stamp disgrace on man's polluted name, And barter, with their gold, eternal shame ! But hark ! as bow'd to earth the Bramin kneels, From heavenly climes propitious thunder peals ! Of India's fate her guardian spirits tell, Prophetic murmurs breathing on the shell, And solemn sounds, that awe the listening mind, Roll on the azure paths of every wind.
Page 37 - Heaven ! ere Freedom found a grave, Why slept the sword, omnipotent to save ? Where was thine arm, O Vengeance...
Page 76 - The strife is o'er — the pangs of nature close, And life's last rapture triumphs o'er her woes. Hark ! as the spirit eyes, with eagle gaze, The noon of Heaven undazzled by the blaze, On heavenly winds that waft her...
Page 23 - Bright as the pillar rose at Heaven's command, When Israel march'd along the desert land, Blazed through the night on lonely wilds afar, And told the path — a never-setting star : So heavenly genius, in thy course divine, Hope is thy star, her light is ever thine.
Page 58 - And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh ! what were man? — a world without a sun.
Page 9 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.