The Works of Mrs Hemans;: With a Memoir of Her Life,William Blackwood & Sons, ... and Thomas Cadell, London., 1839 |
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... Hall of Cynddylan ......... The Lament of Llywarch Hen .... Grufydd's Feast .... The Cambrian in America .. 219 220 222 223 225 ཤྲཱ ིི ིི ༔ སྠཽ ིི སྠཽ 226 228 230 The Monarchy of Britain .. 231 Taliesin's Prophecy ... 232 Owen Glyndwr's ...
... Hall of Cynddylan ......... The Lament of Llywarch Hen .... Grufydd's Feast .... The Cambrian in America .. 219 220 222 223 225 ཤྲཱ ིི ིི ༔ སྠཽ ིི སྠཽ 226 228 230 The Monarchy of Britain .. 231 Taliesin's Prophecy ... 232 Owen Glyndwr's ...
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... halls thou wilt not dwell , Nor lift their banner , with a warrior's joy , Amidst the sons of mountain chiefs , who fell For Spain of old . - Yet what if rolling waves Have borne us far from our ancestral graves ? Thou shalt not feel ...
... halls thou wilt not dwell , Nor lift their banner , with a warrior's joy , Amidst the sons of mountain chiefs , who fell For Spain of old . - Yet what if rolling waves Have borne us far from our ancestral graves ? Thou shalt not feel ...
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... hall , With his white hair to sit , and deem the name A hundred chiefs had borne , cast down by you to shame ! 6 XXXIII . And woe for you , ' midst looks and words of love , And gentle hearts and faces , nursed so long ! How had I seen ...
... hall , With his white hair to sit , and deem the name A hundred chiefs had borne , cast down by you to shame ! 6 XXXIII . And woe for you , ' midst looks and words of love , And gentle hearts and faces , nursed so long ! How had I seen ...
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... hall- With his deep tones and sweet , though full of years , He bless'd me there , and bathed my child's young head with tears . XXIX . I had brought sorrow on his grey hairs down , And cast the darkness of my branded name ( For so he ...
... hall- With his deep tones and sweet , though full of years , He bless'd me there , and bathed my child's young head with tears . XXIX . I had brought sorrow on his grey hairs down , And cast the darkness of my branded name ( For so he ...
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... Hall . Chapter on Forest - Trees . Note 4 , page 11 , line 6 , The might of truth . For a most interesting account of the Spanish Protes- tants , and the heroic devotion with which they met the spirit of persecution in the sixteenth ...
... Hall . Chapter on Forest - Trees . Note 4 , page 11 , line 6 , The might of truth . For a most interesting account of the Spanish Protes- tants , and the heroic devotion with which they met the spirit of persecution in the sixteenth ...
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Page 178 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath. And stars to set — but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! THE LOST PLEIAD.
Page 264 - PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens : Praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels : Praise ye him, all his hosts.
Page 135 - Give back the lost and lovely ! — those for whom The place was kept at board and hearth so long ! The prayer went up...
Page 158 - While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And stream'd above the gallant child, Like banners in the sky. There came a burst of thunder sound— The boy— oh! where was he? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea, With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part; But the noblest thing that perished there Was that young faithful heart.
Page 158 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My Father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Page 157 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
Page 255 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 158 - With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart...
Page 175 - 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...
Page 160 - With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.