PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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... virtue than to happiness : and , as such , it frequently discovers itself in the most tumul- tous scenes of life . It addresses our finer feelings , and gives exercise to every mild and generous propensity . Not confined to man , it ...
... virtue than to happiness : and , as such , it frequently discovers itself in the most tumul- tous scenes of life . It addresses our finer feelings , and gives exercise to every mild and generous propensity . Not confined to man , it ...
Page 19
... virtue and each softer grace ; What tho ' the fiend's torpedo - touch arrest Each gentler , finer impulse of the breast ; Still shall this active principle preside , And wake the tear to Pity's self denied . The intrepid Swiss , who ...
... virtue and each softer grace ; What tho ' the fiend's torpedo - touch arrest Each gentler , finer impulse of the breast ; Still shall this active principle preside , And wake the tear to Pity's self denied . The intrepid Swiss , who ...
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... Virtue , tranquil Virtue , knows . When Joy's bright sun has shed his evening - ray , And Hope's delusive meteors cease to play ; When clouds on clouds the smiling prospect close , Still thro ' the gloom thy star serenely glows : Like ...
... Virtue , tranquil Virtue , knows . When Joy's bright sun has shed his evening - ray , And Hope's delusive meteors cease to play ; When clouds on clouds the smiling prospect close , Still thro ' the gloom thy star serenely glows : Like ...
Page 30
... Virtue fear the frowns of Fate ? Hers what no wealth can buy , no power create ! A little world of clear and cloudless day , Nor wrecked by storms , nor mouldered by decay ; A world , with MEMORY'S ceaseless sun - shine blest , The home ...
... Virtue fear the frowns of Fate ? Hers what no wealth can buy , no power create ! A little world of clear and cloudless day , Nor wrecked by storms , nor mouldered by decay ; A world , with MEMORY'S ceaseless sun - shine blest , The home ...
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... virtues as it fell ; And o'er the dripping moss , the fretted stone , In FLORIO's ear breathed language not its own . Her charm around the enchantress MEMORY threw , A charm that sooths the mind , and sweetens too ! But is Her magic ...
... virtues as it fell ; And o'er the dripping moss , the fretted stone , In FLORIO's ear breathed language not its own . Her charm around the enchantress MEMORY threw , A charm that sooths the mind , and sweetens too ! But is Her magic ...
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admiration ancient beautiful bids blessed blest breathe bright called CANTO CHARLES JAMES Fox charm Cicero Columbus dark death delight dream Euripides eyes father fear feelings Finden fled flowers fond gaze Gilbert Wakefield glows Goodall grey grove hail hand hear heart Heaven Hence Herodotus Hist hope hour Household Deities hung Icarius Italy light line 15 lived look Lord mind musing Newington Green night o'er once Petrarch Pleasures of Memory poems Poet resigned Richard Sharp rise Rogers round sacred sail Samuel Rogers sate says scene secret shade shed shine sigh silent sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit stood Stothard Stourbridge sung sweet swell taste tears thee thine Thomas Rogers thou thought thro trace trembling triumph Turner Twas verse virtue voice wake wandering wave weep wild wings wish Worcestershire young youth