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... triumph flushed my breast ; This truth once known - To bless is to be blest ! We led the bending beggar on his way , ( Bare were his feet , his tresses silver - grey ) Soothed the keen pangs his aged spirit felt , And on his tale with ...
... triumph flushed my breast ; This truth once known - To bless is to be blest ! We led the bending beggar on his way , ( Bare were his feet , his tresses silver - grey ) Soothed the keen pangs his aged spirit felt , And on his tale with ...
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... triumph swell ? With conscious truth , retrace the mazy clue Of summer - scents , that charmed her as she flew ? Hail , MEMORY , hail ! thy universal reign Guards the least link of Being's glorious chain . THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY . PART ...
... triumph swell ? With conscious truth , retrace the mazy clue Of summer - scents , that charmed her as she flew ? Hail , MEMORY , hail ! thy universal reign Guards the least link of Being's glorious chain . THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY . PART ...
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... triumphs o'er despair ? Awake , arise ! with grateful fervour fraught , Go , spring the mine of elevating thought . He , who , thro ' Nature's various walk , surveys The good and fair her faultless line pourtrays ; Whose mind , profaned ...
... triumphs o'er despair ? Awake , arise ! with grateful fervour fraught , Go , spring the mine of elevating thought . He , who , thro ' Nature's various walk , surveys The good and fair her faultless line pourtrays ; Whose mind , profaned ...
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... triumphs of the mind , By truth illumined , and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye , and closed the ear , Still nerved for action in her native sphere , Oft will she rise - with searching glance pursue Some long - loved ...
... triumphs of the mind , By truth illumined , and by taste refined ? When age has quenched the eye , and closed the ear , Still nerved for action in her native sphere , Oft will she rise - with searching glance pursue Some long - loved ...
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... triumphs of the field displayed ; Usurped the canvass of the crowded hall , And chased a line of heroes from the wall . There slept the horn each jocund echo knew , And many a smile and many a story drew ! High o'er the hearth his ...
... triumphs of the field displayed ; Usurped the canvass of the crowded hall , And chased a line of heroes from the wall . There slept the horn each jocund echo knew , And many a smile and many a story drew ! High o'er the hearth his ...
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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 67 - 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 69 - 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...