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... grave . A rapid succession of Poets followed , of whom Pope retains the pre - eminence . His animation and poig- nancy made him the favourite of the higher ranks ; a favour which seldom embodies itself with the permanent Born , 1631 ...
... grave . A rapid succession of Poets followed , of whom Pope retains the pre - eminence . His animation and poig- nancy made him the favourite of the higher ranks ; a favour which seldom embodies itself with the permanent Born , 1631 ...
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... grave of Byron there can be but one inscrip- tion - that living long enough for fame , he died too soon for his country . All hostility should be sacrificed on the spot where the remains of the great poet sleep ; and no man worthy to ...
... grave of Byron there can be but one inscrip- tion - that living long enough for fame , he died too soon for his country . All hostility should be sacrificed on the spot where the remains of the great poet sleep ; and no man worthy to ...
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... grave , That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl , Shrieking his baleful note , which ever drave Far from that haunt all other cheerful fowl ; And all about it wandering ghosts did wail and ...
... grave , That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly owl , Shrieking his baleful note , which ever drave Far from that haunt all other cheerful fowl ; And all about it wandering ghosts did wail and ...
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... ease , And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil , port after stormy seas , Ease after war , death after life , doth greatly please . " The knight much wondered at his sudden wit , And 4 SPENCER . 37.
... ease , And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil , port after stormy seas , Ease after war , death after life , doth greatly please . " The knight much wondered at his sudden wit , And 4 SPENCER . 37.
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... grave ; Buried , yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial , From worst of other evils , pains , and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life , Life in captivity Among inhuman foes . FROM THE SAME . Many ...
... grave ; Buried , yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial , From worst of other evils , pains , and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life , Life in captivity Among inhuman foes . FROM THE SAME . Many ...
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Page 356 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Page 299 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 129 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY.
Page 359 - As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hillside; 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 ? ODE ON A GRECIAN URN THOU still unravished bride of quietness!
Page 168 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew: 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Page 379 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 163 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 300 - Far flashed the red artillery ! But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained snow, And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 'Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy.
Page 81 - Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 58 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless...