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... sought To meditate in holy thought , And pour beneath the morning sun Their feelings to the Holy One . Apart from his forsaken home Was seen uprear'd that mighty dome That should ere long his dwelling be , When , in their wild immensity ...
... sought To meditate in holy thought , And pour beneath the morning sun Their feelings to the Holy One . Apart from his forsaken home Was seen uprear'd that mighty dome That should ere long his dwelling be , When , in their wild immensity ...
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... sought before The scenes that bore the trace of man , From den and cavern sallied forth , And sped them o'er the darken'd earth , In sullen plight still crowding on , Impell'd by some mysterious law Proclaim'd from out th ' eternal ...
... sought before The scenes that bore the trace of man , From den and cavern sallied forth , And sped them o'er the darken'd earth , In sullen plight still crowding on , Impell'd by some mysterious law Proclaim'd from out th ' eternal ...
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... sought the Ark , The mighty crowds that round it teem'd , And pray'd , or sorrow'd , or blasphemed , And rent their robes and tore their hair From their wild workings of despair , The agony of spirit felt Might well have melted down his ...
... sought the Ark , The mighty crowds that round it teem'd , And pray'd , or sorrow'd , or blasphemed , And rent their robes and tore their hair From their wild workings of despair , The agony of spirit felt Might well have melted down his ...
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... sought to hide , Were deep and wildly overflow'd , And choked ' mid darkness and the tide : Yet bounding oft , as thus beset , The strong to other haunts would spring , And lions , by the leopards met , Would trample on the snake , and ...
... sought to hide , Were deep and wildly overflow'd , And choked ' mid darkness and the tide : Yet bounding oft , as thus beset , The strong to other haunts would spring , And lions , by the leopards met , Would trample on the snake , and ...
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... sought to twine Its glittering wreaths around his hair , Then smote him , and the power that smote Melted his mortal form to nought . And I could tell , how rose the wail Of mingled voices , fierce , yet frail , Pleading , through ...
... sought to twine Its glittering wreaths around his hair , Then smote him , and the power that smote Melted his mortal form to nought . And I could tell , how rose the wail Of mingled voices , fierce , yet frail , Pleading , through ...
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abode afar amid Ararat aught awful bless'd bliss bore bosom bower breast breath breeze bright brow calm cease charm cold dark dawn dead death decay deep dread dream dwell e'er earth eternity evermore fair faith fear feelings flower gloom glory glow green grey hath heart heaven heaving holy hope hour Japheth Jehovah Lelah light lips live lone melted mercy mind moorland morning mortal mountain ne'er neath never night Noah o'er the world own'd pain pass'd peace power of pain prayer radiance rills roll'd round scene seem'd shade shadows shed Shem sigh simoom sleep smile song sorrow sought soul spirit star starless night strife sublime sung surely shalt die tempest thee thine thou surely shalt thought throne tide trembling Twas vale voice wake wander waters waves wayward weary wild wilderness winds wont
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Page 325 - And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son ; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Page 310 - And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning.
Page 22 - pear'd the shadow of the curse That hung, to deepen, o'er the universe — The arm, prepared to work the works of hell, Shorn of its power, in palsied frailty fell ; And lips, that wont so fiercely to dispute In words of blasphemy, grew pale and mute, As startled looks, with wilder'd meaning fraught, From heart to heart convey'd the sudden thought, That from some dread, unalterable decree, Unwonted doom had been, or soon should be ; Even nature show'da strange and wild dismay, As if her secret laws...
Page 22 - As if her secret laws hud roll'd astray. " The azure sky, that scarce a cloud had known Since first its glowing lamps in glory shone— Since first, amid its airy regions hung, The morning stars in joy together sung, ] Began to mingle with its native blue, A wildly sicken'd, melancholy hue, Pale as the light that tampers with the gloom Around the precincts of the whiten'd tomb, When morn its earliest glimmering renews Athwart the wild weeds and the churchyard dews.
Page 270 - Japheth's wife, so brisk of mood, Amid the mountain's solitude, With airy form and footstep light, Pursued afar the raven's flight, That she might gain a jewel gay, Which, snatching, he had borne away ; Yet still as she, in hope, would gain His resting-place, and search'd in vain, Returning, he would near her perch, And boldly aid that eager search ; And gledge and downward cast his eye, And tear the mud and moss around, As if he would with her outvie In ft tiding what coutd not be found.
Page 21 - ... opinion of the merits of this poem is, it contains several passages that indicate higher powers than we should have, from its general tenor, inclined to give the author credit for possessing. Among these, Is the impressive prelude to the deluge : " When the secret council of the sky Was spread in open light before their eye, And from Jehovah's will the thought went forth, That told through heaven the destiny of earth, Emotion of Inexplicable kind Trembled afar through all created mind. " The...
Page 255 - These ringlets yet are dark and long, And the eye has lost not all its light, Though it might not aye its tears among Be all so blue and all so bright, As yet it seem'd, ere the lily white...