PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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... skies ; Tho ' far below the forked lightnings play , And at his feet the thunder dies away , Oft , in the saddle rudely rocked to sleep , While his mule browses on the dizzy steep , With MEMORY's aid , he sits at home , and 30.
... skies ; Tho ' far below the forked lightnings play , And at his feet the thunder dies away , Oft , in the saddle rudely rocked to sleep , While his mule browses on the dizzy steep , With MEMORY's aid , he sits at home , and 30.
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Samuel Rogers. With MEMORY's aid , he sits at home , and sees His children sport beneath their native trees , And bends to hear their cherub - voices call , O'er the loud fury of the torrent's fall . But can her smile with gloomy Madness ...
Samuel Rogers. With MEMORY's aid , he sits at home , and sees His children sport beneath their native trees , And bends to hear their cherub - voices call , O'er the loud fury of the torrent's fall . But can her smile with gloomy Madness ...
Page 32
... sits sublime , Or wake the Spirit of departed Time . Who acts thus wisely , mark the moral Muse , A blooming Eden in his life reviews ! So rich the culture , tho ' so small the space , Its scanty limits he forgets to trace . But the ...
... sits sublime , Or wake the Spirit of departed Time . Who acts thus wisely , mark the moral Muse , A blooming Eden in his life reviews ! So rich the culture , tho ' so small the space , Its scanty limits he forgets to trace . But the ...
Page 37
... cell Musing MEMORY loves to dwell , With her sister Solitude . Far from the busy world she flies , To taste that peace the world denies . Entranced she sits ; from youth to age , Reviewing Life's eventful page ; And noting , ere they 37.
... cell Musing MEMORY loves to dwell , With her sister Solitude . Far from the busy world she flies , To taste that peace the world denies . Entranced she sits ; from youth to age , Reviewing Life's eventful page ; And noting , ere they 37.
Page 63
... sit there , we find our- selves in a Sabine farm , and not in a Roman villa . His windows have every charm of prospect ; but his furniture might have descended from Cincinnatus ; and gems , and pictures , and old marbles , are men ...
... sit there , we find our- selves in a Sabine farm , and not in a Roman villa . His windows have every charm of prospect ; but his furniture might have descended from Cincinnatus ; and gems , and pictures , and old marbles , are men ...
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