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... silent lyre , yet thou canst still Call the warm tear from its thrice hallow'd cell , And with recalled images of bliss Warm my reluctant heart . Yes , I would throw , Once more would throw , a quick and hurried hand O'er the responding ...
... silent lyre , yet thou canst still Call the warm tear from its thrice hallow'd cell , And with recalled images of bliss Warm my reluctant heart . Yes , I would throw , Once more would throw , a quick and hurried hand O'er the responding ...
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... Silent , unseen , unnoticed , unlamented . Come then , sad Thought , and let us meditate While meditate we may . I hoped I should not leave The earth without a vestige ; Fate decrees It shall be otherwise , and I submit Henceforth , O ...
... Silent , unseen , unnoticed , unlamented . Come then , sad Thought , and let us meditate While meditate we may . I hoped I should not leave The earth without a vestige ; Fate decrees It shall be otherwise , and I submit Henceforth , O ...
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... silent flight . No more is heard the woodman's measured stroke , Which with the dawn from yonder dingle broke ; No ... silence reigns , save when below The murmuring Trent is scarcely heard to flow ; And save when , swung by ' nighted ...
... silent flight . No more is heard the woodman's measured stroke , Which with the dawn from yonder dingle broke ; No ... silence reigns , save when below The murmuring Trent is scarcely heard to flow ; And save when , swung by ' nighted ...
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... silent spot to my advancing years . Here dwells eternal peace , eternal rest , In shades like these to live is to be bless'd . While happiness evades the busy crowd , In rural coverts loves the maid to shroud . And thou too ...
... silent spot to my advancing years . Here dwells eternal peace , eternal rest , In shades like these to live is to be bless'd . While happiness evades the busy crowd , In rural coverts loves the maid to shroud . And thou too ...
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... silence , o'er Arion's * star The slumbering Night rolls on her velvet car : The church bell tolls , deep sounding down the glade , The solemn hour for walking spectres made ; The simple ploughboy , wakening with the sound , Listens ...
... silence , o'er Arion's * star The slumbering Night rolls on her velvet car : The church bell tolls , deep sounding down the glade , The solemn hour for walking spectres made ; The simple ploughboy , wakening with the sound , Listens ...
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POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY KIRKE Henry Kirke 1785-1806 White,Nicholas Harris Sir Nicolas, 1799-1848 No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 215 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, —...
Page 227 - It was my guide, my light, my all, it bade my dark forebodings cease ; and through the storm and danger's thrall it led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored — my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, for ever and for evermore, the Star— The Star of Bethlehem...
Page 226 - When, marshalled on the nightly plain, The glittering host bestud the sky, One Star alone, of all the train, Can fix the sinner's wandering eye. Hark ! hark ! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem ; But one alone the Saviour speaks, It is the star of Bethlehem.
Page 193 - ... on thy weary head, Could from our best of duties ever shrink ? Sooner the sun from his high sphere should sink Than we, ungrateful, leave thee in that day, To pine in solitude thy life away, Or shun thee, tottering on the grave's cold brink. Banish the thought ! — where'er our steps may roam, O'er smiling plains, or wastes without a tree, Still will fond memory point our hearts to thee, And paint the pleasures of thy peaceful home ; While duty bids us all thy griefs assuage, And smooth the...
Page 229 - WHITE !t while life was in its spring, And thy young Muse just waved her joyous wing. The spoiler came ; and all thy promise fair, Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When Science...
Page xlv - Henceforth, oh, world, no more of thy desires ! No more of hope ! the wanton vagrant Hope ! I abjure all. — Now other cares engross me, And my tired soul, with emulative haste, Looks to its God, and prunes its wings for Heaven.
Page 230 - So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 104 - AH ! who can say, however fair his view, Through what sad scenes his path may lie ? Ah ! who can give to others' woes his sigh, Secure his own will never need it too ? Let thoughtless youth its seeming joys pursue, Soon will they learn to scan with thoughtful eye The illusive past and dark futurity ; Soon will they know — VIII.
Page 28 - Surveys the sleepless muser, stamps the hour Of utter silence, it is fearful then To steer the mind, in deadly solitude. Up the vague stream of probability; To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time!
Page 171 - Stern despoilers of the plains, Hence, away, the season flee, Foes to light-heart jollity: May no winds careering high Drive the clouds along the sky, But may all nature smile with aspect boon, When in the heavens thou...