The Poetical Works of William CollinsCharles Whittingham, 1804 - 144 páginas |
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... perhaps it was yet more distinctly impressed upon my memory , I shall insert it here . " Mr. Collins was a man of extensive lite- rature , and of vigorous faculties . He was ac- quainted not only with the learned tongues , but with the ...
... perhaps it was yet more distinctly impressed upon my memory , I shall insert it here . " Mr. Collins was a man of extensive lite- rature , and of vigorous faculties . He was ac- quainted not only with the learned tongues , but with the ...
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... perhaps , while he was intent upon description , he did not sufficiently cultivate sentiment . His poems are the productions of a mind not deficient in fire , nor unfurnished with knowledge either of books or life , but somewhat ...
... perhaps , while he was intent upon description , he did not sufficiently cultivate sentiment . His poems are the productions of a mind not deficient in fire , nor unfurnished with knowledge either of books or life , but somewhat ...
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... perhaps , to hear thy tragic song ' . Go , not unmindful of that cordial youth2 Whom , long endear'd , thou leav'st by Lavant's side ; Together let us wish him lasting truth , And joy untainted , with his destin'd bride . 1 How truly ...
... perhaps , to hear thy tragic song ' . Go , not unmindful of that cordial youth2 Whom , long endear'd , thou leav'st by Lavant's side ; Together let us wish him lasting truth , And joy untainted , with his destin'd bride . 1 How truly ...
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... perhaps , in lusty vigour seen , And rosy health , shall soon lamented die . For them the viewless forms of air obey ; Their bidding heed , and at their beck repair : They know what spirit brews the stormful day , And heartless , oft ...
... perhaps , in lusty vigour seen , And rosy health , shall soon lamented die . For them the viewless forms of air obey ; Their bidding heed , and at their beck repair : They know what spirit brews the stormful day , And heartless , oft ...
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... perhaps , with moist and watery hand , Shall fondly seem to press her shuddering check , And with his blue - swoln face before her stand , And , shivering cold , these piteous accents speak : " Pursue , dear wife , thy daily toils ...
... perhaps , with moist and watery hand , Shall fondly seem to press her shuddering check , And with his blue - swoln face before her stand , And , shivering cold , these piteous accents speak : " Pursue , dear wife , thy daily toils ...
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Página 68 - And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Página 67 - tis said, when all were fired, Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatch'd her instruments of sound,' And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power, FIRST Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewilder'd laid, And back recoil'd, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.
Página 80 - No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No withered witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew! The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid : With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid.
Página 66 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Página 69 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Página 42 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 69 - Pour*d through the mellow horn her pensive soul ; And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels join'd the sound : Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round a holy calm diffusing, Love of peace and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Página 35 - O THOU by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought, In numbers warmly pure, and sweetly strong : Who first, on mountains wild, In Fancy, loveliest child, Thy babe or Pleasure's, nurs'd the pow'rs of song ! Thou who with hermit heart Disdain'st the wealth of art...
Página 18 - Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Cursed be the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade ! The lily peace outshines the silver store, And life is dearer than the golden ore ; Yet money tempts us o'er the desert brown...
Página 134 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still, The pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.