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... heard the narratives of age , The battle's havoc , and the tempest's rage ; Long have ye known Reflection's genial ray Gild the calm close of Valor's various day . Time's sombrous touches soon correct the piece , Mellow each tint , and ...
... heard the narratives of age , The battle's havoc , and the tempest's rage ; Long have ye known Reflection's genial ray Gild the calm close of Valor's various day . Time's sombrous touches soon correct the piece , Mellow each tint , and ...
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... heard . And ever , ever to her lap he flies , When rosy Sleep comes on with sweet surprise . Lock'd in her arms , his arms across her flung , ( That name most dear for ever on his tongue ) As with soft accents round her neck he clings ...
... heard . And ever , ever to her lap he flies , When rosy Sleep comes on with sweet surprise . Lock'd in her arms , his arms across her flung , ( That name most dear for ever on his tongue ) As with soft accents round her neck he clings ...
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... heard to - night ; His parting , though awhile our sorrow flows , Like setting suns or music at the close ! Then was the drama ended . Not till then , So full of chance and change the lives of men , Could we pronounce him happy . Then ...
... heard to - night ; His parting , though awhile our sorrow flows , Like setting suns or music at the close ! Then was the drama ended . Not till then , So full of chance and change the lives of men , Could we pronounce him happy . Then ...
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... heard to swell , And lo , an humble Piedmontese , Whose music might a lady please , This message through the lattice bore , ( She listen'd , and her trembling frame Told her at once from whom it came ) Oh let us fly - to part no more ...
... heard to swell , And lo , an humble Piedmontese , Whose music might a lady please , This message through the lattice bore , ( She listen'd , and her trembling frame Told her at once from whom it came ) Oh let us fly - to part no more ...
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... heard afar , Like thunder , or the distant din of war ! Mountains and seas fled backward as he pass'd O'er the great globe , by not a cloud o'ercast From the Antarctic , from the Land of Fire1 To where Alaska's wintry wilds retire ...
... heard afar , Like thunder , or the distant din of war ! Mountains and seas fled backward as he pass'd O'er the great globe , by not a cloud o'ercast From the Antarctic , from the Land of Fire1 To where Alaska's wintry wilds retire ...
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age to age amidst arms art thou beauty behold beneath blest blood bosom breast breath Capel Lofft Charles Lamb charm clouds dark dead death deep delight dream earth eternal father fear fire flame flowers foes gaze gloom glory Gondoline grace grave Greenland grief hand hath heard heart heaven Henry Kirke White hope hour Javan land light living lonely look'd Lord lyre mind moon morning mother mountains Muse Nature's never night Note numbers o'er once pale pass'd peace Petrarch PSALM rapture rest rise rock rose round scene seem'd shade shine shore sigh silent sing sleep slumbers smile song SONNET sorrow soul spirit star stood storm sublime sweet tears tempest thee Theodric thine thou thought tomb trembling turn'd vale Venice vex'd voice wandering waves weep wild wind wings woods youth
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Page 150 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulph'rous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 149 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Page 485 - Deep horror then my vitals froze, death-struck, -I ceased the tide to stem; when suddenly a star arose — it was the Star of Bethlehem.
Page 485 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 351 - FRIEND after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying none were blest.
Page 149 - Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom:— Then ceased— and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.
Page 116 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell — unwept— without a crime ! Found not a generous friend — a pitying foe — Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear— Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career ! — Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked — as KOSCIUSKO fell!
Page 351 - Thus star by star declines, Till all are passed away, As morning high and higher shines, To pure and perfect day ; Nor sink those stars in empty night ; They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
Page 26 - ... an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 63 - When on an idle day, a day of search 'Mid the old lumber in the gallery, That mouldering chest was noticed ; and 'twas said By one as young, as thoughtless as GINEVRA, " Why not remove it from its lurking-place...