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... sorrows drew the ready tear . Oft with the babes we wandered in the wood , Or viewed the forest - feats of Robin Hood : Oft , fancy - led , at midnight's fearful hour , With startling step we scaled the lonely tower ; O'er infant ...
... sorrows drew the ready tear . Oft with the babes we wandered in the wood , Or viewed the forest - feats of Robin Hood : Oft , fancy - led , at midnight's fearful hour , With startling step we scaled the lonely tower ; O'er infant ...
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... Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , 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 ...
... Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , 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 ...
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... sorrow's long soliloquies a prey , When reason , justice , vainly urged his cause , For this he roused her sanguinary laws ; Glad to return , tho ' Hope could grant no more , And chains and torture hailed him to the shore . And hence ...
... sorrow's long soliloquies a prey , When reason , justice , vainly urged his cause , For this he roused her sanguinary laws ; Glad to return , tho ' Hope could grant no more , And chains and torture hailed him to the shore . And hence ...
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... CHARLES renounced a throne , To muse with monks unlettered and unknown , What from his soul the parting tribute drew ? What claimed the sorrows of a last adieu ? The still retreats that soothed his tranquil breast Ere grandeur 19.
... CHARLES renounced a throne , To muse with monks unlettered and unknown , What from his soul the parting tribute drew ? What claimed the sorrows of a last adieu ? The still retreats that soothed his tranquil breast Ere grandeur 19.
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... sorrow has softened into melancholy , she amuses with a retrospect of innocent pleasures , and inspires that noble confidence which results from the conscious- ness of having acted well . When sleep has suspended the organs of sense ...
... sorrow has softened into melancholy , she amuses with a retrospect of innocent pleasures , and inspires that noble confidence which results from the conscious- ness of having acted well . When sleep has suspended the organs of sense ...
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Ęschylus ancient bids bless blest blushes breathe bright calm Castilian language charm cheek child Cicero Columbus controul Cortes dark delight dream etsi Eumenides Euripides evening-star eyes faded father fear flies flowers gaze glad gliding glory glows grave grove hand hear heart Heaven Helicen Hence Herrera Hist holy hope and fear hour human voice Hyades inspires Jacqueline light line 17 line 21 live look Loriot Maximian mind Muse night o'er once Petrarch Plato pleasure rest rise round sacred sate says scene secret shade shed shine sigh silent sing sire sits sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit spring steals stood sung sweet swell tears thee thine thou thought thro trace trembling triumphs truth Twas vale vengeance rise victorious bands VIRGIL'S tomb voice Voyage wake wandering wave weep wild wind wings young youth
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Page 39 - Hail, MEMORY, hail ! in thy exhaustless mine From age to age unnumbered treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own.
Page 115 - A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew ; And Lucy at her wheel shall sing In russet gown and apron blue. The village church among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were given, With merry peals shall swell...
Page 68 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 29 - Than when the shades of time serenely fall On every broken arch and ivied wall; The tender images we love to trace, Steal from each year a melancholy grace ! And as the sparks of social love expand, As the heart opens in a foreign land; And, with a brother's warmth, a brother's smile, The stranger greets each native of his isle...
Page 38 - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care; With whom, alas ! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild control, Correct my views, and elevate my soul...
Page 115 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 139 - Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory opening in the west To golden climes and islands of the blest; And human voices, on the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there...
Page 68 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 56 - And soon again shall music swell the breeze ; Soon, issuing forth, shall glitter through the trees Vestures of nuptial white; and hymns be sung, And violets scattered round; and old and young, In every...
Page 60 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before...