Wrinkles: From the Brow of Experience, and Other PoemsJames Woodmansee, 1860 - 179 páginas |
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... dark Error's night . IV . Blest Wisdom freights life's moment ere it flies With Virtue's diamonds , loaded for the skies ; But Foolery grins to Foolery as she goes To home of horrors , and to world of woes . FOLLY . WRINKLE I. The child ...
... dark Error's night . IV . Blest Wisdom freights life's moment ere it flies With Virtue's diamonds , loaded for the skies ; But Foolery grins to Foolery as she goes To home of horrors , and to world of woes . FOLLY . WRINKLE I. The child ...
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... dark with Imperfection's dots , And often black , alas ! with Error's blots . III . Man , with Perfection , is not bless'd , - The Rose , with every beauty dress'd , Is queen of Flowers - the Garden's gem , But , many thorns are on her ...
... dark with Imperfection's dots , And often black , alas ! with Error's blots . III . Man , with Perfection , is not bless'd , - The Rose , with every beauty dress'd , Is queen of Flowers - the Garden's gem , But , many thorns are on her ...
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... dark night of the tomb . III . There is but one thing certain ' neath the sun- A Grave , and that , poor Mortals , fain would shun ! THE BODY . WRINKLE I. The Body , is Soul's prison - house of clay , - A shadow , flitting from the ...
... dark night of the tomb . III . There is but one thing certain ' neath the sun- A Grave , and that , poor Mortals , fain would shun ! THE BODY . WRINKLE I. The Body , is Soul's prison - house of clay , - A shadow , flitting from the ...
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... darkness hath no night , And valley's end is throng'd with Seraphim ! All fills with God , and everything is Heaven- The thought of Heaven is summer to the soul ! The Angels come ! Archangels ! Hierarchs ! My Savior comes with glory ...
... darkness hath no night , And valley's end is throng'd with Seraphim ! All fills with God , and everything is Heaven- The thought of Heaven is summer to the soul ! The Angels come ! Archangels ! Hierarchs ! My Savior comes with glory ...
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... pearly gates of Paradise . And I was there ! among that horrid crowd ! O , woful thought ! dark story of my life ! That hour be torn from Time's great calendar ; That time , from rolling years be blotted out ; IN MEMORIAM . 65.
... pearly gates of Paradise . And I was there ! among that horrid crowd ! O , woful thought ! dark story of my life ! That hour be torn from Time's great calendar ; That time , from rolling years be blotted out ; IN MEMORIAM . 65.
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Angel Apocrypha Babe beautiful Beelzebub behold bless'd blood breath bright brow celestial Christian Closing Scene crown Daguerreotypes dark Death Deity divine doth dreadful dreams dust dwells E'en e'er Earth Eolian Epic Eternity evermore face fall fell fire foes Folly Folly's fools forever Frail gems Genius give glory God's grave groan happy Harp hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell holy Homer Iliad immortal Invocation Jesus John Calvin King Life's light little heaven live look'd looks loveliness lyre Man-the Man's mankind mighty Milton mind Mortality Mother Nature's neath night o'er Paradise Paradise Lost Peace Poem Pollok Religion Renown robe round sacred Satan Savior silly fool sleep smile song soul soul's speak spirit stars sublime sweet tears thee things thou thought thro throne Time's tomb tongue Truth Typhon vale Virtue Virtue's wakes weep wing Wisdom wonder Woodmansee WRINKLE Yond
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Página 177 - Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream.
Página 177 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, 195 Lay floating many a rood...
Página 177 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 163 - Hold my right hand, Almighty ! and me teach To strike the lyre, but seldom struck, to notes Harmonious with the morning stars, and pure As those by sainted bards and angels sung, Which wake the echoes of Eternity ; That fools may hear and tremble, and the wise, Instructed, listen of ages yet to come.
Página 46 - ... months a professing Christian. Her :race was short, and her end triumphant. O glorious hope of immortality ! O transporting thought ! Julia yet lives, and lives for ever. Surely if there is any one word that carries peculiar sweetness in its sound, it is this word immortality. It is this that dries the tear that falls upon the urn of those we love. It is this that reconciles the soul to