Wrinkles: From the Brow of Experience, and Other PoemsJames Woodmansee, 1860 - 179 páginas |
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... new worlds ' mong the stars ; It teacheth self ! bless'd lesson known by few . Must know thyself e'er thou canst govern self : - This self is eel - like in its slipperiness , And would not be examined by daylight ; Man seeks 8 PROEM .
... new worlds ' mong the stars ; It teacheth self ! bless'd lesson known by few . Must know thyself e'er thou canst govern self : - This self is eel - like in its slipperiness , And would not be examined by daylight ; Man seeks 8 PROEM .
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... star in heavenly orb , And all unwavering as the sun in heaven- A martyr - perseverance until death . Fears naught but God , and hates but Sin alone , And dares do right , tho ' Death and Hell oppose ! He is the zeal that lion's den can ...
... star in heavenly orb , And all unwavering as the sun in heaven- A martyr - perseverance until death . Fears naught but God , and hates but Sin alone , And dares do right , tho ' Death and Hell oppose ! He is the zeal that lion's den can ...
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... stars in his crown , And store his treasures safe in house of God : - He stores Heaven - treasure as a miser gold , And gems each minute as it flies with Praise , - Crowds in each moment what is worth all worlds And lays up wealth ...
... stars in his crown , And store his treasures safe in house of God : - He stores Heaven - treasure as a miser gold , And gems each minute as it flies with Praise , - Crowds in each moment what is worth all worlds And lays up wealth ...
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... stars ; His eye sees clear where optic - tubes grow dim- Faith - eyed beholds a Paradise beyond : How high Religion can exalt a man ! Celestial heights above his fellow men Tho ' they are kings , and he a beggar is , — Exalteth e'en to ...
... stars ; His eye sees clear where optic - tubes grow dim- Faith - eyed beholds a Paradise beyond : How high Religion can exalt a man ! Celestial heights above his fellow men Tho ' they are kings , and he a beggar is , — Exalteth e'en to ...
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... stars in galaxy of heaven , And not a stain his spirit - robe defiles— More fit for Heaven than for a sinful world .. He is a traveler thro ' the Shades of Death To God's bright city - e'en his Father's house ! To brink of Jordan ...
... stars in galaxy of heaven , And not a stain his spirit - robe defiles— More fit for Heaven than for a sinful world .. He is a traveler thro ' the Shades of Death To God's bright city - e'en his Father's house ! To brink of Jordan ...
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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