The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred PoetryC. Whittingham, 1806 - 304 páginas |
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... breath , Yet to - morrow I shall be Heir to the best part of me . Glitt'ring stones and golden things , Wealth and honours that have wings , Ever flutt'ring to be gone , I could never call my own : Riches that the world bestows , She ...
... breath , Yet to - morrow I shall be Heir to the best part of me . Glitt'ring stones and golden things , Wealth and honours that have wings , Ever flutt'ring to be gone , I could never call my own : Riches that the world bestows , She ...
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... breath , Answer thy smile , and hail the tyrant - Death . Launch undismay'd beyond the solar bound : With prophets number'd , and with martyrs found . Where wait the saints , for better things prepar'd , Their final glory , and their ...
... breath , Answer thy smile , and hail the tyrant - Death . Launch undismay'd beyond the solar bound : With prophets number'd , and with martyrs found . Where wait the saints , for better things prepar'd , Their final glory , and their ...
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... . In foreign realms , and lands remote , Supported by thy care , Thro ' burning climes I pass'd unhurt , And breath'd in tainted air . Thy mercy sweeten'd every soil , Made every region please 74 Preservation by Land and Sea Addison.
... . In foreign realms , and lands remote , Supported by thy care , Thro ' burning climes I pass'd unhurt , And breath'd in tainted air . Thy mercy sweeten'd every soil , Made every region please 74 Preservation by Land and Sea Addison.
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... breath can make them , as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroy'd , can never be supply'd . A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ...
... breath can make them , as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroy'd , can never be supply'd . A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ...
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... breath'd a thousand sweets , TO SURRY'S wood - crown'd hills my steps allur'd . O happy hours , beyond recov'ry fled ! What share I now , " that can your loss repay , " While o'er my mind these glooms of thought are spread , And veil ...
... breath'd a thousand sweets , TO SURRY'S wood - crown'd hills my steps allur'd . O happy hours , beyond recov'ry fled ! What share I now , " that can your loss repay , " While o'er my mind these glooms of thought are spread , And veil ...
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angels behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom bosom bow'rs breast breath bright charms cherub clime clouds crown'd darkness death deep divine dreadful dust e'er earth eternal ev'n ev'ry ev❜n eyes fair faithless fame fate fix'd flame flow'rs gloom glory golden grace grave GRONGAR HILL hand happy hast heart heaven hermit hill horrors hour land light liquid sky live LORD lyre mighty mind MONODY morn mortal Muse nature's ne'er night o'er pain patriot war peace Petrarch Pindus plain pleas'd pow'r praise pride proud rage rais'd rise round sacred scene seraph shade shine sight silent skies smile soft solemn song soul sound spread spring swain sweet SWEET Auburn swell tears tempest thee thine thou thought thro throne toil trembling Twas vale virtue voice waking eyes wand'ring waves Whilst wild winds wings wretch
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Página 19 - On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end ! Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 94 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Página 78 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 90 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Página 92 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 95 - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth, His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Página 89 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Página 147 - The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 26 - His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ? There I should rest, And sleep secure...
Página 145 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...