PoemsEdward Moxon, 1842 - 304 pages |
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... thought , Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind ; Its orb so full , its vision so confined ! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ? Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell ? With conscious truth , retrace the mazy clue ...
... thought , Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind ; Its orb so full , its vision so confined ! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell ? Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell ? With conscious truth , retrace the mazy clue ...
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... thought which was formerly most familiar . Nor are we pleased only with a review of the brighter passages of life . Events , the most dis- tressing in their immediate consequences , are often cherished in remembrance with a degree of ...
... thought which was formerly most familiar . Nor are we pleased only with a review of the brighter passages of life . Events , the most dis- tressing in their immediate consequences , are often cherished in remembrance with a degree of ...
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... thought ; These still exist , by Thee to Fame consigned , Still speak and act , the models of mankind . From Thee gay Hope her airy colouring draws ; And Fancy's flights are subject to thy laws . From Thee that bosom - spring of rapture ...
... thought ; These still exist , by Thee to Fame consigned , Still speak and act , the models of mankind . From Thee gay Hope her airy colouring draws ; And Fancy's flights are subject to thy laws . From Thee that bosom - spring of rapture ...
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... thought , and freezings of despair ! But pause not then - beyond the western wave , Go , see the captive bartered as a slave ! Crushed till his high , heroic spirit bleeds , And from his nerveless frame indignantly recedes .... Yet here ...
... thought , and freezings of despair ! But pause not then - beyond the western wave , Go , see the captive bartered as a slave ! Crushed till his high , heroic spirit bleeds , And from his nerveless frame indignantly recedes .... Yet here ...
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... thought ; And round , in colours of the rainbow , threw Forms ever fair , creations ever new ! But , as he fondly snatched the wreath of Fame , The spectre Poverty unnerved his frame . Cold was her grasp , a withering scowl she wore ...
... thought ; And round , in colours of the rainbow , threw Forms ever fair , creations ever new ! But , as he fondly snatched the wreath of Fame , The spectre Poverty unnerved his frame . Cold was her grasp , a withering scowl she wore ...
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age to age ancient bids bless blest breathe bright called calm CANTO charm child Cicero clouds Columbus controul Cortes courser dark delight desert shore dream Euripides father fear Finden fled flowers fond gaze glory glows grove hail hand hear heart Heaven Hence Herodotus Herrera Hist holy hope and fear hour human voice hung Icarius inspire light live look mighty Wind mind Muse night o'er once Pausanias Petrarch pleasure R.A. Goodall rapture resigned rise round sacred sail sate says scene secret seraph shade shed shine shore sigh silent sire sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit spring steals stood Stothard sung sweet swell tears thee thine thou thought thro trace trembling triumphs truth Turner Twas vale VESPASIAN VIRGIL's tomb virtue voice wake wandering wave weep whence wild wind wings young youth