(The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems1821 - 68 pages |
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... spirit guides the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend , with all her heav'nly pow'r , The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour ? Ah , no ! she darkly seès the fate of man- Her dim horizon bounded to a span ...
... spirit guides the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend , with all her heav'nly pow'r , The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour ? Ah , no ! she darkly seès the fate of man- Her dim horizon bounded to a span ...
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... spirits bring ! What viewless forms th ' Eolian organ play , And sweep the furrow'd lines of anxious thought away ! Angel of life ! thy glittering wings explore Earth's loneliest bounds , and Ocean's wildest shore . Lo ! to the wintry ...
... spirits bring ! What viewless forms th ' Eolian organ play , And sweep the furrow'd lines of anxious thought away ! Angel of life ! thy glittering wings explore Earth's loneliest bounds , and Ocean's wildest shore . Lo ! to the wintry ...
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... spirit of the deep : Swift as yon streamer lights the starry pole , Her visions warm the watchman's pensive soul . His native hills , that rise in happier climes , The grot that heard his song of other times , His cottage home , his ...
... spirit of the deep : Swift as yon streamer lights the starry pole , Her visions warm the watchman's pensive soul . His native hills , that rise in happier climes , The grot that heard his song of other times , His cottage home , his ...
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... spirits on the midnight heath ; Inquire of guilty wand'rers whence they came , And ask each blood - stain'd form his earthly name ; Then weave , in rapid verse the deeds they tell , And read the trembling world the tales of hell ...
... spirits on the midnight heath ; Inquire of guilty wand'rers whence they came , And ask each blood - stain'd form his earthly name ; Then weave , in rapid verse the deeds they tell , And read the trembling world the tales of hell ...
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... spirit ling'ring near ? Oh ! wilt thou come , at ev'ning hour , to shed The tears of memory o'er my narrow bed ; With aching temples on thy hand reclin❜d , Muse on the last farewell I leave behind , Breathe a deep sigh to winds that ...
... spirit ling'ring near ? Oh ! wilt thou come , at ev'ning hour , to shed The tears of memory o'er my narrow bed ; With aching temples on thy hand reclin❜d , Muse on the last farewell I leave behind , Breathe a deep sigh to winds that ...
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