(The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems1821 - 68 pages |
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Page 17
... Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay ! Hark ! as the smould'ring piles with thunder fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call ! Earth shook - red meteors flash'd along the sky , And conscious Nature shudder'd at the cry ! Oh ...
... Bursts the wild cry of horror and dismay ! Hark ! as the smould'ring piles with thunder fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call ! Earth shook - red meteors flash'd along the sky , And conscious Nature shudder'd at the cry ! Oh ...
Page 19
... burst the Lybian's adamantine bands ? Who , sternly marking on his native soil , The blood , the tears , the anguish , and the toil , Shall bid each righteous heart exult , to see Peace to the slave , and vengeance on the free ! Yet ...
... burst the Lybian's adamantine bands ? Who , sternly marking on his native soil , The blood , the tears , the anguish , and the toil , Shall bid each righteous heart exult , to see Peace to the slave , and vengeance on the free ! Yet ...
Page 22
... burst her starry gates again ! He comes dread Brama shakes the sunless sky With murm'ring wrath , and thunders from on highl Heaven's fiery horse , beneath his warrior form , Paws the light clouds , and gallops on the storm ! Wide waves ...
... burst her starry gates again ! He comes dread Brama shakes the sunless sky With murm'ring wrath , and thunders from on highl Heaven's fiery horse , beneath his warrior form , Paws the light clouds , and gallops on the storm ! Wide waves ...
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... burst the ties that bound him to the world ! Turn from his dying words , that smite with steel Theshuddering thoughts , or wind them on the wheel- Turn to the gentler melodies that suit Thalia's harp , or Pan's Arcadian lute ; Or down ...
... burst the ties that bound him to the world ! Turn from his dying words , that smite with steel Theshuddering thoughts , or wind them on the wheel- Turn to the gentler melodies that suit Thalia's harp , or Pan's Arcadian lute ; Or down ...
Page 37
... bursts the morn on night's unfathom'd gloom , Lur'd his dim eye to deathless hopes sublime , Beyond the realms of Nature , and of Time ! " And weep not thus , " he cried , " young Ellenore , My bosom bleeds , but soon shall bleed no ...
... bursts the morn on night's unfathom'd gloom , Lur'd his dim eye to deathless hopes sublime , Beyond the realms of Nature , and of Time ! " And weep not thus , " he cried , " young Ellenore , My bosom bleeds , but soon shall bleed no ...
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