Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 2Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... dark convention stand : From each fiend's mouth a ruddy vapour flows , Glides through the roof , and o'er the council glows : The villains , close beneath the infection pent , Feel , all possessed , their rising galls ferment ; And burn ...
... dark convention stand : From each fiend's mouth a ruddy vapour flows , Glides through the roof , and o'er the council glows : The villains , close beneath the infection pent , Feel , all possessed , their rising galls ferment ; And burn ...
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... dark domain , Is sunshine to the colour of my fate . Night , sable goddess ! from her ebon throne , In rayless majesty , now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world . Silence how dead ! and darkness how pro- found ...
... dark domain , Is sunshine to the colour of my fate . Night , sable goddess ! from her ebon throne , In rayless majesty , now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world . Silence how dead ! and darkness how pro- found ...
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... dark and dreary hour When injured ghosts complain ; When yawning graves give up their dead , To haunt the faithless swain . Bethink thee , William , of thy fault , Thy pledge and broken oath ! And give me back my maiden - vow , And give ...
... dark and dreary hour When injured ghosts complain ; When yawning graves give up their dead , To haunt the faithless swain . Bethink thee , William , of thy fault , Thy pledge and broken oath ! And give me back my maiden - vow , And give ...
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... darker art employed . The father , too , a sordid man , Who love nor pity knew , Was all unfeeling as the clod From ... dark owl screamed Her lover's funeral song . Amid the falling gloom of night , Her startling fancy found In every ...
... darker art employed . The father , too , a sordid man , Who love nor pity knew , Was all unfeeling as the clod From ... dark owl screamed Her lover's funeral song . Amid the falling gloom of night , Her startling fancy found In every ...
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... Dark as the grave , and spacious as the skies ; Where , from the first of time , thy kindred train , The chiefs and princes of the unjust remain . Eternal barriers guard the pathless road To warn the wanderer of the cursed abode ; But ...
... Dark as the grave , and spacious as the skies ; Where , from the first of time , thy kindred train , The chiefs and princes of the unjust remain . Eternal barriers guard the pathless road To warn the wanderer of the cursed abode ; But ...
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