The Night Before the Bridal: A Spanish Tale. Sappho, a Dramatic Sketch, and Other Poems |
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... shrine Helena - art thou bending o'er thy beads In shaded cell , where thy young beauty pleads With Heaven , not vainly , for this world of sin ? One vesper hymn of thine , might entrance win For spirits , by their wild transgressions ...
... shrine Helena - art thou bending o'er thy beads In shaded cell , where thy young beauty pleads With Heaven , not vainly , for this world of sin ? One vesper hymn of thine , might entrance win For spirits , by their wild transgressions ...
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... shrine : And though Proxena was all form'd to bless , The stern Hidalgo cursed her not the less . ' Tis hard to live beneath a father's curse , And in the world's corrupted language , worse The forfeiture of patrimonial dower : Thus ...
... shrine : And though Proxena was all form'd to bless , The stern Hidalgo cursed her not the less . ' Tis hard to live beneath a father's curse , And in the world's corrupted language , worse The forfeiture of patrimonial dower : Thus ...
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... shrine their rarest flowers : Leontio , monarch of her heart was nigh , And he had power to make those hours speed on , Till listening love believed not they were gone . Skill'd in the lore of that romantic land , His fancy framed it ...
... shrine their rarest flowers : Leontio , monarch of her heart was nigh , And he had power to make those hours speed on , Till listening love believed not they were gone . Skill'd in the lore of that romantic land , His fancy framed it ...
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... shrine ; And with one bound , she from his clasp would start , With all the force of virtue in her heart . XIII . But what infatuation lull'd to rest Suspicion in her Spanish father's breast ? Was he with blind enthusiasm so elate ...
... shrine ; And with one bound , she from his clasp would start , With all the force of virtue in her heart . XIII . But what infatuation lull'd to rest Suspicion in her Spanish father's breast ? Was he with blind enthusiasm so elate ...
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... shrine of marble- and they grew Fearfully lustrous , and her cheek as pale : Her breathing was but one deep struggling sigh , Suppress'd to pain when scrutiny was nigh . Still walk'd she with him in the grove Enamour'd , on his form her ...
... shrine of marble- and they grew Fearfully lustrous , and her cheek as pale : Her breathing was but one deep struggling sigh , Suppress'd to pain when scrutiny was nigh . Still walk'd she with him in the grove Enamour'd , on his form her ...
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arms art thou ATTHIS beauteous beauty blood bloom bosom BOTANY bower breast breath bright brow calm charms cheek CLEIS coloured crime dark death deem'd deep Diocles doth droop'd earth Edition eyes faint fair fatal fatal dowry fearful fell felt fix'd fling flowers fond gaze glare gleam'd glorious glory glow grief grove guilt hast hath heard heart heaven Helena HIPPARCHUS hope hour hues IMBRIUS Inez JAMES HOGG knew Leontio Lesbos light linger'd lips look look'd LYNCEUS MEGARA Methymna midst Miguel mind Mozart mute night o'er pale pass'd passion PHAON Plates play'd Price 11 pride priest proud repose rich ROBERT SOUTHEY Royal rush'd SAPPHO scene Seville shade SHARON TURNER shone shores shrine Sicily smile soul Spain spirit stood sweet tale tears thee thine thou thought tomb tresses turn'd Twas Valasco's vales veil voice Vols watch'd waves wild worshipp'd young
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