The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One VolumeA. and W. Galignani, 1829 - 497 pages |
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... age ; There as it glow'd , with noblest frenzy fraught , Dispense the treasures of exalted thought ; To Virtue wake the pulses of the heart , And bid the tear of emulation start ! Oh could it still , through each succeeding year , My ...
... age ; There as it glow'd , with noblest frenzy fraught , Dispense the treasures of exalted thought ; To Virtue wake the pulses of the heart , And bid the tear of emulation start ! Oh could it still , through each succeeding year , My ...
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... age beloved , in poverty revered ; In Friendship's silent register ye live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give . -But when the sons of peace , of pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , What spells entrance my ...
... age beloved , in poverty revered ; In Friendship's silent register ye live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give . -But when the sons of peace , of pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , What spells entrance my ...
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... age has quenched the eye , and closed the ear , Still nerved for action in her native sphere , Oft will she rise - with searching glance pursue Some long - loved image vanished from her view ; Dart through the deep recesses of the past ...
... age has quenched the eye , and closed the ear , Still nerved for action in her native sphere , Oft will she rise - with searching glance pursue Some long - loved image vanished from her view ; Dart through the deep recesses of the past ...
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... age , Reviewing Life's eventful page ; And noting , ere they fade away , The little lines of yesterday . Florio had gained a rude and rocky seat , When lo , the Genius of this still retreat ! Fair was her form - but who can hope to ...
... age , Reviewing Life's eventful page ; And noting , ere they fade away , The little lines of yesterday . Florio had gained a rude and rocky seat , When lo , the Genius of this still retreat ! Fair was her form - but who can hope to ...
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... age to age unnumber'd treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey , And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel , when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own . Lighter than air ...
... age to age unnumber'd treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey , And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel , when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own . Lighter than air ...
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Page 96 - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Page 41 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some!
Page 39 - I'll row you o'er the ferry." By this the storm grew loud apace, The water-wraith was shrieking ; And in the scowl of Heaven each face Grew dark as they were speaking. But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode armed men, Their trampling sounded nearer.
Page 70 - GOD is my strong salvation, What foe have I to fear ? In darkness and temptation, My light, my help is near.
Page 75 - For Him shall prayer unceasing And daily vows ascend, His kingdom still increasing, A kingdom without end: The mountain-dews shall nourish ' A seed in weakness sown, Whose fruit shall spread and flourish And shake like Lebanon.
Page 4 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time; And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Page 119 - The storm, that wrecks the winter sky, No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose.
Page 93 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 40 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Page 40 - The Soldier's Dream. OUR bugles sang truce ; for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.