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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... night , And snatch the faithless fugitive to light . So through the grove the impatient mother flies , Each sunless glade , each secret pathway tries ; Till the thin leaves the truant boy disclose , Long on the wood - moss stretched in ...
... night , And snatch the faithless fugitive to light . So through the grove the impatient mother flies , Each sunless glade , each secret pathway tries ; Till the thin leaves the truant boy disclose , Long on the wood - moss stretched in ...
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... night and day Him who shrinks back or wanders from the way , Praising each highly - from a wish to raise Their merits to the level of his Praise , Onward in their observing sight he moves , Fearful of wrong , in awe of whom he loves ...
... night and day Him who shrinks back or wanders from the way , Praising each highly - from a wish to raise Their merits to the level of his Praise , Onward in their observing sight he moves , Fearful of wrong , in awe of whom he loves ...
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... night at noon of day ; Nor wandering up and down the wood , To all but her a solitude , Where once a wild deer , wild no more , Her chaplet on his antlers wore , And at her bidding stood . II . The day was in the golden west ; And ...
... night at noon of day ; Nor wandering up and down the wood , To all but her a solitude , Where once a wild deer , wild no more , Her chaplet on his antlers wore , And at her bidding stood . II . The day was in the golden west ; And ...
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... night and day he advances , till he is suddenly stopped in his course by a mass of vegetation , extending as far as the eye can reach , and assuming the appearance of a coun- try overwhelmed by the sea . Alarm and despondence on board ...
... night and day he advances , till he is suddenly stopped in his course by a mass of vegetation , extending as far as the eye can reach , and assuming the appearance of a coun- try overwhelmed by the sea . Alarm and despondence on board ...
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... Night Descends , and shuts the vision from their sight . CANTO III . An Assembly of Evil Spirits . THOUGH changed my cloth of gold for amice grey- ( 15 ) In my spring - time , when every month was May , With hawk and hound I coursed ...
... Night Descends , and shuts the vision from their sight . CANTO III . An Assembly of Evil Spirits . THOUGH changed my cloth of gold for amice grey- ( 15 ) In my spring - time , when every month was May , With hawk and hound I coursed ...
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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.