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... gaze upon the alter'd brow , And love as fondly , faithfully , as now ? Should Fortune frown on your defenceless head , Should storms o'ertake your bark on life's dark sea , Fierce tempests rend the sail so gaily spread When Hope her ...
... gaze upon the alter'd brow , And love as fondly , faithfully , as now ? Should Fortune frown on your defenceless head , Should storms o'ertake your bark on life's dark sea , Fierce tempests rend the sail so gaily spread When Hope her ...
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... Gaze on , - ' tis lovely ! -childhood's lip and cheek , Mantling beneath its earnest brow of thought— Gaze - yet what seest thou in those fair , and meek , And fragile things , as but for sunshine wrought ? Thou seest what grief must ...
... Gaze on , - ' tis lovely ! -childhood's lip and cheek , Mantling beneath its earnest brow of thought— Gaze - yet what seest thou in those fair , and meek , And fragile things , as but for sunshine wrought ? Thou seest what grief must ...
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... gaze upon the dead . But when I see the fair wide brow , Half shaded by the silken hair , That never look'd so fair as now , When life and health were laughing there , I wonder not that grief should swell So wildly upward in the breast ...
... gaze upon the dead . But when I see the fair wide brow , Half shaded by the silken hair , That never look'd so fair as now , When life and health were laughing there , I wonder not that grief should swell So wildly upward in the breast ...
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... gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine , in her mirror blue , Gives back the banks in shapes more true , Than ev'ry free - born glance confess'd The guileless movements of her breast ; Whether joy danced in her dark eye , Or woe or pity ...
... gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine , in her mirror blue , Gives back the banks in shapes more true , Than ev'ry free - born glance confess'd The guileless movements of her breast ; Whether joy danced in her dark eye , Or woe or pity ...
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... gaze upon the mountains , -to behold , With deep affection , the pure ample sky , And clouds along its blue abysses roll'd- To love the song of waters , and to hear The melody of winds with charmed ear . Here I have ' scaped the city's ...
... gaze upon the mountains , -to behold , With deep affection , the pure ample sky , And clouds along its blue abysses roll'd- To love the song of waters , and to hear The melody of winds with charmed ear . Here I have ' scaped the city's ...
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Page 76 - Of aspect more sublime : that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world. Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood. In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 190 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 52 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 367 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 5 - All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 4 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 364 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 240 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star...
Page 53 - As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 297 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.