The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, HamiltonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... light without her is the colour of woe : Come , Death , then relieve me , my life I resign , Since the arrows of Love are less friendly than thine . Ye virgins of Isis , the fair and the young , Whose praises so often have sweet'ned my ...
... light without her is the colour of woe : Come , Death , then relieve me , my life I resign , Since the arrows of Love are less friendly than thine . Ye virgins of Isis , the fair and the young , Whose praises so often have sweet'ned my ...
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... light Wav'd tremulous , and set the eye on fire . A silken curtain , drawn on silver wire , And ting'd with colours of the summer sky , Flow'd round , and bade the ruder gales retire . Four forms attendant at the portals lie , The same ...
... light Wav'd tremulous , and set the eye on fire . A silken curtain , drawn on silver wire , And ting'd with colours of the summer sky , Flow'd round , and bade the ruder gales retire . Four forms attendant at the portals lie , The same ...
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... light . But strangest was to see a bloody hand Uprear a cross , the cross with blood bedight ' : Ten thousand angels , flutt'ring in a band , Admir'd the mystic sign but cou'd not understand . Now dulcet symphonies , and voices meet ...
... light . But strangest was to see a bloody hand Uprear a cross , the cross with blood bedight ' : Ten thousand angels , flutt'ring in a band , Admir'd the mystic sign but cou'd not understand . Now dulcet symphonies , and voices meet ...
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... light ! No , no , withdraw thy ray , Her eyes effuse a day , As mild , as warm , as bright , Flow , flow , thou crystal - rill , With tinkling gurgles fill The mazes of the grove And if thy murmuring stream Invite my love to dream , O ...
... light ! No , no , withdraw thy ray , Her eyes effuse a day , As mild , as warm , as bright , Flow , flow , thou crystal - rill , With tinkling gurgles fill The mazes of the grove And if thy murmuring stream Invite my love to dream , O ...
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... light the lovers homeward , rose , And Philomela lull'd them to repose . While the bloom of orient light Gilds thee in thy tuneful flight , May the Day - spring from on high , Seen by Faith's religious eye , Cheer me with his vital ray ...
... light the lovers homeward , rose , And Philomela lull'd them to repose . While the bloom of orient light Gilds thee in thy tuneful flight , May the Day - spring from on high , Seen by Faith's religious eye , Cheer me with his vital ray ...
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Page 138 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 139 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 46 - Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Page 138 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 138 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 137 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 138 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Page 53 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.
Page 138 - 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...
Page 216 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.