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... glows divinely there . What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend , with all her heav'nly pow'r , The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour ? Ah , no ! she darkly sees the fate of man ...
... glows divinely there . What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend , with all her heav'nly pow'r , The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour ? Ah , no ! she darkly sees the fate of man ...
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... glows the joyous parent to descry A guileless bosom , true to sympathy ! Where is the troubled heart , consigned to share Tumultuous toils , or solitary care , Unblest by visionary thoughts that stray To count the joys of Fortune's ...
... glows the joyous parent to descry A guileless bosom , true to sympathy ! Where is the troubled heart , consigned to share Tumultuous toils , or solitary care , Unblest by visionary thoughts that stray To count the joys of Fortune's ...
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... glow , His blood - dy'd waters murm'ring far below ; The storm prevails , the rampart yields a way , Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay ! Hark ! as the smouldering piles with thunder fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy ...
... glow , His blood - dy'd waters murm'ring far below ; The storm prevails , the rampart yields a way , Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay ! Hark ! as the smouldering piles with thunder fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy ...
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... glow , And rival all but Shakspeare's name below ! And say , supernal Powers ! who deeply scan Heav'n's dark decrees , unfathom❜d yet by man , When shall the world call down , to cleanse her shame , That embryo spirit , yet without a ...
... glow , And rival all but Shakspeare's name below ! And say , supernal Powers ! who deeply scan Heav'n's dark decrees , unfathom❜d yet by man , When shall the world call down , to cleanse her shame , That embryo spirit , yet without a ...
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... glow Like summer suns , and light the world below ; Earth , and her trembling isles in Ocean's bed , Are shook ; and Nature rocks beneath his tread ! To pour redress on India's injur'd realm , The oppressor 44 PLEASURES OF HOPE .
... glow Like summer suns , and light the world below ; Earth , and her trembling isles in Ocean's bed , Are shook ; and Nature rocks beneath his tread ! To pour redress on India's injur'd realm , The oppressor 44 PLEASURES OF HOPE .
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adieu afar ANTISTROPHE Arion bark beauty Beauty's bleed bliss bosom bower Brama's bright Briton brow burst charm charm'd child clime cried deed deep delight doom'd dread dust dust return earth Engraved eternal fate fire fond friendless Gilderoy glows hail hallow'd hand Hark Hast thou hath heart Heath Heav'n Heav'n's command heav'nly Hindoo hour hurl'd isles life's light lonely Loxian lyre MEDEA Mercy midnight mingles mournful murmur Muse Nature Nature's NOTE numbers o'er pang parricide Peace pensive Plato PLEASURES OF HOPE poor dog Tray pow'r PRINTED FOR LONGMAN proud rapture red dragons rocks sacred sapient sculp seraph shade shalt shore sigh slumber smile song soothe sorrow soul spirit storm sublime sweep sweet tear thee thine THOMAS CAMPBELL trembling triumph Truth twas vale Vengeance watch wave weep wheels wild winds wing wounded Hussar wrath wretch
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Page 25 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time; And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore. On Erie's banks, where tigers steal along, And the dread Indian chants a dismal song, Where human fiends on midnight errands walk, And bathe in brains the murderous tomahawk ; There shall the flocks on thymy pasture stray, And shepherds dance at Summer's opening day ; Each wandering genius of the lonely glen Shall start...
Page 67 - 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...
Page 29 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Page 54 - The world was sad! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
Page 58 - Hesperian planet hail, And the lone cuckoo sighs along the vale, His path shall be where streamy mountains swell Their shadowy grandeur o'er the narrow dell, Where mouldering piles and forests intervene, Mingling with darker tints the living green ; No circling hills his ravish'd eye to bound, Heaven, Earth, and Ocean, blazing all around.
Page 21 - twas there she wept in vain, Till Memory fled her agonizing brain ; — But Mercy gave, to charm the sense of woe, Ideal peace, that truth could ne'er bestow ; Warm on her heart the joys of Fancy beam, And aimless HOPE delights her darkest dream. Oft when yon moon has...
Page 72 - Science search'd, on weary wing, By shore and sea — each mute and living thing ? Launched with Iberia's pilot from the steep, To worlds unknown, and isles beyond the deep ? Or round the cope her living chariot driven, And...