The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber, and PollokJ. Grigg, 1833 - 470 pages |
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... dark caves illume , And Mercy broods above the distant gloom . Thou palsied earth , with noonday night o'er- spread ! Thou sick'ning sun , so dark , so deep , so red ! Ye hov'ring ghosts , that throng the starless air , Why shakes the ...
... dark caves illume , And Mercy broods above the distant gloom . Thou palsied earth , with noonday night o'er- spread ! Thou sick'ning sun , so dark , so deep , so red ! Ye hov'ring ghosts , that throng the starless air , Why shakes the ...
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... dark temptation's hour , Shall chase them from the soul . No heavenly harpings sooth our ear , No mystic dreams we share ; Yet hope to feel thy comfort near , And bless thee in our prayer . When tongues shall cease , and power decay ...
... dark temptation's hour , Shall chase them from the soul . No heavenly harpings sooth our ear , No mystic dreams we share ; Yet hope to feel thy comfort near , And bless thee in our prayer . When tongues shall cease , and power decay ...
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... dark and dismal shore Alone didst tread the wine - press , and alone , All glorious in thy gore , Didst light and life restore , To us who lay in darkness and undone ! Therefore , with angels and archangels , we To thy HYMNS . 25 25.
... dark and dismal shore Alone didst tread the wine - press , and alone , All glorious in thy gore , Didst light and life restore , To us who lay in darkness and undone ! Therefore , with angels and archangels , we To thy HYMNS . 25 25.
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... ( Dark as the violet's darkest shade , ) In solitary sorrow bare . Then to her nurse the infant maid She weeping gave , and bade convey To high Phersana's hall away : Where woman - grown , and doomed to prove In turn a god's disastrous ...
... ( Dark as the violet's darkest shade , ) In solitary sorrow bare . Then to her nurse the infant maid She weeping gave , and bade convey To high Phersana's hall away : Where woman - grown , and doomed to prove In turn a god's disastrous ...
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... dark curtain o'er their weary way , ( A cloud by day , a friendly flame by night , ) From distant Cush they trooped , a warrior train , Siwah's ( 1 ) green isle and Sennaar's marly plain : On either wing their fiery coursers check The ...
... dark curtain o'er their weary way , ( A cloud by day , a friendly flame by night , ) From distant Cush they trooped , a warrior train , Siwah's ( 1 ) green isle and Sennaar's marly plain : On either wing their fiery coursers check The ...
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Page 280 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form.
Page 11 - Lo ! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God.
Page 271 - O'er each fair sleeping brow ; She had each folded flower in sight, — Where are those dreamers now ? One, 'midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream is laid, — The Indian knows his place of rest, Far in the cedar shade.
Page 11 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! <#irst Sunbag after %ip|rang.— No.
Page 11 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 280 - Say, Father, say, If yet my task is done!" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. "Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!
Page 2 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 10 - The martyr first, whose eagle eye Could pierce beyond the grave, Who saw his Master in the sky, And called on Him to save. Like Him, with pardon on His tongue, In midst of mortal pain, He prayed for them that did the wrong; Who follows in His train?
Page 21 - Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Page 264 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.