Poems of Felicia Hemans: Chronologically Arranged, with Illustrative Notes and a Selection of Contemporary ReviewsWilliam P. Nimmo, 1878 - 668 páginas |
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... meet with any thing like harshness or mortification . Though this unex- pected severity was felt bitterly for a few days , her buoyant spirit soon rose above it , and her effusions continued to be poured forth as spontaneously as the ...
... meet with any thing like harshness or mortification . Though this unex- pected severity was felt bitterly for a few days , her buoyant spirit soon rose above it , and her effusions continued to be poured forth as spontaneously as the ...
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... meet thee , my Brother ! again . When the heroes of Albion , still valiant and true , Were bleeding , were falling , with victory crown'd , How often would fancy present to my view The horrors that waited thee round ! How constant , how ...
... meet thee , my Brother ! again . When the heroes of Albion , still valiant and true , Were bleeding , were falling , with victory crown'd , How often would fancy present to my view The horrors that waited thee round ! How constant , how ...
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... Meets the warm tear - drop and the long embrace ! While the sweet welcome vibrates through his heart , " Hail , weary ... meet ; Embosom'd there , to feel and to impart The softer pleasures of the social heart ! Ah ! weep for those ...
... Meets the warm tear - drop and the long embrace ! While the sweet welcome vibrates through his heart , " Hail , weary ... meet ; Embosom'd there , to feel and to impart The softer pleasures of the social heart ! Ah ! weep for those ...
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... meet at last , Unite their kindred souls - and smile on all the past ! Yes ! we may hope that nature's deathless ties , Renew'd , refined , shall triumph in the skies ! Heart - soothing thought ! whose loved , consoling powers With ...
... meet at last , Unite their kindred souls - and smile on all the past ! Yes ! we may hope that nature's deathless ties , Renew'd , refined , shall triumph in the skies ! Heart - soothing thought ! whose loved , consoling powers With ...
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... Meet for such lofty fate , such high abode , How many a race , whose tales of glory seem An echo's voice - the music of a dream , Whose records feebly from oblivion save A few bright traces of the wise and brave ; How many a state ...
... Meet for such lofty fate , such high abode , How many a race , whose tales of glory seem An echo's voice - the music of a dream , Whose records feebly from oblivion save A few bright traces of the wise and brave ; How many a state ...
Términos y frases comunes
bear beauty beneath bless borne brave breast breath bright brow child cloud dark dead death deep doth dreams dwell e'en earth fair faith fall father fear feeling flowers glory glow gone grave green grief hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hills holy hope hour Italy land leaves light live lone look meet midst mind nature never night o'er once pass pass'd past proud pure rest rich rise rocks rose round scene shade shadow shore shrine silent sleep smile soft song soul sound speak spirit stars step storm strain stream strong sweet tears tell thee thine things thou thou hast thought tomb tone voice wave weep wild wind woods young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 371 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form.
Página 643 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Página 414 - THE stately homes of England ! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam ; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Página 482 - Not there, not there, my child." " Is it where the feathery palm-trees rise, And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? Or 'midst the green islands of glittering seas. Where fragrant forests perfume the breeze, And strange bright birds, on their starry wings, Bear the rich hues of all glorious things ! " "Not there, not there, ray child.
Página 379 - CHILD, amidst the flowers at play, While the red light fades away ; Mother, with thine earnest eye, Ever following silently; Father, by the breeze of eve Call'd thy harvest-work to leave — Pray : ere yet the dark hours be, Lift the heart and bend the knee...
Página 496 - Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone ; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
Página 377 - Youth and the opening rose May look like things too glorious for decay, And smile at thee ! - but thou art not of those That wait the ripened bloom to seize their prey.
Página 414 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves, And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves. The free fair homes of England, Long, long, in hut and hall, May hearts of native proof be reared To guard each hallowed wall. And green for ever be the groves, And bright the flowery sod, Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God.
Página 431 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?— They sought a Faith's pure shrine!
Página 364 - O'er youth's bright locks, and beauty's flowery crown : Yet must thou hear a voice — Restore the dead ! Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee ! — Restore the dead, thou sea ! BRING FLOWERS.