PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page iii
... sigh or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date , as his who traced them here . 1793 . A ...
... sigh or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date , as his who traced them here . 1793 . A ...
Page xxxix
... sigh , ' At midnight in a sister's arms to die ! ' Oh thou wert lovely - lovely was thy frame , ' And pure thy spirit as from Heaven it came ! ' And when recalled to join the blest above , ' Thou diedst a victim to exceeding love ...
... sigh , ' At midnight in a sister's arms to die ! ' Oh thou wert lovely - lovely was thy frame , ' And pure thy spirit as from Heaven it came ! ' And when recalled to join the blest above , ' Thou diedst a victim to exceeding love ...
Page lxiii
... sigh , or charm a care to rest ; ' In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , ' Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy . ' Such was his aim at the age of thirty when he wrote these lines ; and every reader of his poems will at once ...
... sigh , or charm a care to rest ; ' In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , ' Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy . ' Such was his aim at the age of thirty when he wrote these lines ; and every reader of his poems will at once ...
Page 14
... sighs so sweet , with transports so refined ? Ethereal Power ! who at the noon of night Recall'st the far - fled spirit of delight ; From whom that musing , melancholy mood Which charms the wise , and elevates the good ; Blest MEMORY ...
... sighs so sweet , with transports so refined ? Ethereal Power ! who at the noon of night Recall'st the far - fled spirit of delight ; From whom that musing , melancholy mood Which charms the wise , and elevates the good ; Blest MEMORY ...
Page 17
... felt pleasure prompts the Patriot's sigh ; This makes him wish to live , and dare to die . For this young FOSCARI , whose hapless fate Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate , D When exile wore his blooming years away , To sorrow's 17.
... felt pleasure prompts the Patriot's sigh ; This makes him wish to live , and dare to die . For this young FOSCARI , whose hapless fate Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate , D When exile wore his blooming years away , To sorrow's 17.
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