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Page 65 - I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness defend you From seasons such as these ? Oh, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to what
Page 43 - His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.
Page 102 - He tells us this is the witness to our own nobility, and to a future immortality. " Progress is man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." (Death, in the Desert.) " Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do."
Page 143 - God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice ! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
Page 117 - perception—which is truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Blinds it, and makes all error; and to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Page 55 - Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight, shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty ; Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all ". There
Page 68 - This world I do renounce; and, in your sights, Shake patiently my great affliction off: If I could bear it longer, and not fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills, My snuff, and loathed part of nature should Burn itself out".
Page 66 - Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sit like birds i" the cage; When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live And take
Page 112 - nature leading me; In youth I looked to these very skies, And probing their immensities I found God there, His visible power Yet felt in my heart, amid all its sense Of the power, an equal evidence That His love, there too, was the nobler dower; For the loving worm within its clod, Were diviner than a loveless god—
Page 76 - So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence Had risen, or heaved his head, but that the will And high permission of all ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs ; That