The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber, and PollokJ. Grigg, 1833 - 470 pages |
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... song : But lawless Force , and meagre Want is there , And the quick - darting eye of restless Fear ; While cold Oblivion , ' mid thy ruins laid , Folds his dank wing ( 1 ) beneath the ivy shade . Ye guardian saints ! ye warrior sons of ...
... song : But lawless Force , and meagre Want is there , And the quick - darting eye of restless Fear ; While cold Oblivion , ' mid thy ruins laid , Folds his dank wing ( 1 ) beneath the ivy shade . Ye guardian saints ! ye warrior sons of ...
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... song , Would tell of contests sharp and strong , Extol not other lists above The circus of Olympian Jove ; Whence borne on many a tuneful tongue , So Saturn's seed the anthem sung , With harp , and flute , and trumpet's call , Hath sped ...
... song , Would tell of contests sharp and strong , Extol not other lists above The circus of Olympian Jove ; Whence borne on many a tuneful tongue , So Saturn's seed the anthem sung , With harp , and flute , and trumpet's call , Hath sped ...
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... song , The sister queens of Laius ' blood ; Who sorrow's edge endured long , Made keener by remembered good ! - Yet now , she breathes the air of Heaven ( On earth by smouldering thunder riven . ) Long - haired Semele : - To Pallas dear ...
... song , The sister queens of Laius ' blood ; Who sorrow's edge endured long , Made keener by remembered good ! - Yet now , she breathes the air of Heaven ( On earth by smouldering thunder riven . ) Long - haired Semele : - To Pallas dear ...
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... song , whose numbers high Forbid the hero's dame to die , A crown of life abiding still ! - Hark ! round the car of victory , Where noble Psaumis sits on high , The cheering notes resound ; Who vows to swell with added fame His ...
... song , whose numbers high Forbid the hero's dame to die , A crown of life abiding still ! - Hark ! round the car of victory , Where noble Psaumis sits on high , The cheering notes resound ; Who vows to swell with added fame His ...
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... song ; and cool Oanus ' flood ; And of his native pool the rushy strand ; And thy broad bed , refreshing Hipparis , Whose silent waves the peopled city kiss ; That city which hath blest his bounteous hand , Rearing her goodly bowers on ...
... song ; and cool Oanus ' flood ; And of his native pool the rushy strand ; And thy broad bed , refreshing Hipparis , Whose silent waves the peopled city kiss ; That city which hath blest his bounteous hand , Rearing her goodly bowers on ...
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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.