The Class Book of Poetry1852 - Poetry - 144 pages |
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... Soul 31 Hymn on the Creation 33 Thomson . . . The Works of the Third Day of Creation The Happiness of a Country Life 35 The Bursting of Spring Adam's Account of his own Crea- Conjugal Love tion . Noah and the Deluge 888 36 38 Summer ...
... Soul 31 Hymn on the Creation 33 Thomson . . . The Works of the Third Day of Creation The Happiness of a Country Life 35 The Bursting of Spring Adam's Account of his own Crea- Conjugal Love tion . Noah and the Deluge 888 36 38 Summer ...
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... soul of adoration ? 3 Art thou aught else but place , degree , and form , Creating awe and fear in other men ? Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd Than they in fearing . The Blessings of a Shepherd's Life . O God ! methinks it were ...
... soul of adoration ? 3 Art thou aught else but place , degree , and form , Creating awe and fear in other men ? Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd Than they in fearing . The Blessings of a Shepherd's Life . O God ! methinks it were ...
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... soul , Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course , both when thou climb'st , And when ... souls : ye birds , That singing up to heaven - gate ascend , Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise . Ye that ...
... soul , Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course , both when thou climb'st , And when ... souls : ye birds , That singing up to heaven - gate ascend , Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise . Ye that ...
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... souls In prison under judgments imminent ; But all in vain : which when he saw , he ceased Contending , and removed his tents far off . Then from the mountain hewing timber tall , Began to build a vessel of huge bulk , Measured by cubit ...
... souls In prison under judgments imminent ; But all in vain : which when he saw , he ceased Contending , and removed his tents far off . Then from the mountain hewing timber tall , Began to build a vessel of huge bulk , Measured by cubit ...
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... soul to dwell with God , Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load Of death call'd life , which us from life doth sever . Thy works and alms , and all thy good endeavour , Stay'd not behind , nor in the grave were trod , But as faith ...
... soul to dwell with God , Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load Of death call'd life , which us from life doth sever . Thy works and alms , and all thy good endeavour , Stay'd not behind , nor in the grave were trod , But as faith ...
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BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN behold beneath birds bless bliss Born A.D. breast breath bright Charles Murray cheerful Chevy Chace clouds dark death deep delight died A.D. doth dread dream e'en earth ENGLISH PEASANT Erle Douglas Erle Percy ETON COLLEGE Eurydice fair father fear fire flood grave green grove hand happy hath head heard heart heaven hill honour king L'ALLEGRO labour LAODAMIA learn'd light live look lyre MELROSE ABBEY mind morn mortal mountains nature Nature's night numbers nymph o'er pain pass'd peace pleasures pomp pride Protesilaus proud rage rise roar round Scottland shade shew shore sight skies slaine sleep smiling soft song soul sound spirit spring storm stormy tempests blow streams sweet Thamyris thee Thessaly thine thou thought Tiresias trembling twine vale virtue voice wanton wave wild wind wings woods
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Page 12 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Page 47 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their ha'llow'd haunt.
Page 138 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 96 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 31 - Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Page 16 - Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 82 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 44 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 95 - The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove, These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled.
Page 143 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy tempests blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.