The Power of Solitude: A Poem. In Two PartsBarnard B. Macanulty, 1804 - 260 páginas |
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... bright they glide along , May love and wisdom guide their calm career ; And , when thy minstrel slumbers with his song , Oh ! yield his shade a tributary tear : The sweet return may sooth some pensive mood Of one unknown , the muse of ...
... bright they glide along , May love and wisdom guide their calm career ; And , when thy minstrel slumbers with his song , Oh ! yield his shade a tributary tear : The sweet return may sooth some pensive mood Of one unknown , the muse of ...
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... bright , as life , The moving agonies , the rapturous strife , The frequent sighs , which heaved his breast , to raise A friend to sooth him , and a bard to praise ? Vain were the toil , the mystic spring of thought SOLITUDE . 11.
... bright , as life , The moving agonies , the rapturous strife , The frequent sighs , which heaved his breast , to raise A friend to sooth him , and a bard to praise ? Vain were the toil , the mystic spring of thought SOLITUDE . 11.
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... bright review . ( 3 ) ' Tis evening's watch , while silver twilight fails , Scarce winds the seabreeze round the flaccid sails ; Athwart his eyes oblique the moonlight cast , The jocund sailor climbs the giddy mast , Charmed , while he ...
... bright review . ( 3 ) ' Tis evening's watch , while silver twilight fails , Scarce winds the seabreeze round the flaccid sails ; Athwart his eyes oblique the moonlight cast , The jocund sailor climbs the giddy mast , Charmed , while he ...
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... bright fiction never taught to glow In fairy tales or legendary woe ; For them no spirits walk the dusky cave , No murmuring Naiads drink the lucid wave , No fine enchantments , raised at WIELAND's call , ( 4 ) Convene her shadowy train ...
... bright fiction never taught to glow In fairy tales or legendary woe ; For them no spirits walk the dusky cave , No murmuring Naiads drink the lucid wave , No fine enchantments , raised at WIELAND's call , ( 4 ) Convene her shadowy train ...
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... bright visions with pollution fled , And virtue sickened with the tears she shed ; No more returned the scenes of festive mirth , When youth and fancy cheered the social hearth , Or , tripped with truant steps the verdant heath , To ...
... bright visions with pollution fled , And virtue sickened with the tears she shed ; No more returned the scenes of festive mirth , When youth and fancy cheered the social hearth , Or , tripped with truant steps the verdant heath , To ...
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The Power of Solitude: A Poem. in Two Parts - Primary Source Edition Joseph Story Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |
Términos y frases comunes
anguish bard beauty BELISARIUS bend bless blest bliss blush breast breathes bright burst CALIPH calm CALYPSO Chamois charms cheek cheer cherub confest dark dead death deep despair dews divine dreams DRUID E'en e'er embrio enchantment fame fancy fancy's fate faultering flower fond genius gloom glowing grace grandeur grave grief grove hallowed HALLOWEEN haunts heart heaven holy hope horror hour hymn JOSEPH STORY KELPIE life's light lingering lonely lore LUCAN lyre melancholy memory's mind MONODY mourn muse NOTE nymphs o'er passion peace pensive PETRARCH PHARSALIA poem praise pride pure rapture reign retired rites roll round rude sacred scene SECLUSION's shades shed sigh sleep smile soft song sooth sorrow soul spirit sprite strains sublime sullen sway sweet swells tears tender thee thine thou thought thro tomb tranquil trembling truth twilight VAUCLUSE virtue voice wake weep Whence wild youth
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Página 142 - To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour...
Página 142 - Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour, when, stealing from the noise Of care and envy, sweet remembrance soothes With Virtue's kindest looks his aching breast, And turns his tears to rapture.
Página 140 - Say, dost thou mourn thy ravish'd mate, That oft enamour'd on thy strains has hung ? Or has the cruel hand of Fate Bereft thee of thy darling young ? Alas, for both I weep...
Página 127 - The attention : backward thro' her mazy walks Guiding the wanton fancy to her scope, To temples, courts or fields ; with all the band Of painted forms, of passions and designs Attendant : whence, if pleasing in itself, The prospect from that sweet accession gains Redoubled influence o'er the listening mind.
Página 129 - Latini, et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem. sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.
Página 148 - ... of millions are devoted to the service of a despotic prince, whose laws are blindly obeyed, and whose wishes are instantly gratified. Our imagination is dazzled by the splendid picture; and whatever may be the cool dictates of reason, there are few among us who would obstinately refuse a trial of the comforts and the cares of royalty.
Página 139 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.