(The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems1821 - 68 pages |
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... Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world . Now far he sweeps , where scarce a summer smiles , On Behring's rocks , or Greenland's naked isles ; Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow , From wastes that slumber in eternal ...
... Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world . Now far he sweeps , where scarce a summer smiles , On Behring's rocks , or Greenland's naked isles ; Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow , From wastes that slumber in eternal ...
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... looks to thee for power ; To thee the heart its trembling homage yields , On stormy floods , and carnage - cover'd fields , When front to front the banner'd hosts combine , Halt ere they close , and form the dreadful line . When all is ...
... looks to thee for power ; To thee the heart its trembling homage yields , On stormy floods , and carnage - cover'd fields , When front to front the banner'd hosts combine , Halt ere they close , and form the dreadful line . When all is ...
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... look his ev'ning prayer , Or gazing , mutely pensive , sits to hear The mournful ballad warbled in his ear ; How fondly looks admiring Hope the while , At every artless tear , and every smile ! How glows the joyous parent to descry A ...
... look his ev'ning prayer , Or gazing , mutely pensive , sits to hear The mournful ballad warbled in his ear ; How fondly looks admiring Hope the while , At every artless tear , and every smile ! How glows the joyous parent to descry A ...
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... , at whose dejected eye Th ' unfeeling proud one looks -- and passes by ; Condemn'd on Penury's barren path to roam , Scorn'd by the world , and left without a home- Even he , at evening , should he chance to 11 PLEASURES OF HOPE .
... , at whose dejected eye Th ' unfeeling proud one looks -- and passes by ; Condemn'd on Penury's barren path to roam , Scorn'd by the world , and left without a home- Even he , at evening , should he chance to 11 PLEASURES OF HOPE .
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... look that charin'd him in the fair of Greece ; To faultless Nature true , he stole a grace From every finer form and sweeter face ; And , as he sojourn'd on the Egean isles , Woo'd all their love , and treasur'd all their smiles : Then ...
... look that charin'd him in the fair of Greece ; To faultless Nature true , he stole a grace From every finer form and sweeter face ; And , as he sojourn'd on the Egean isles , Woo'd all their love , and treasur'd all their smiles : Then ...
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