Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - 283 pages |
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... breast . When night re - asserts her dark reign Ensanguin'd revenge steps abroad , Then lifts the assassin his arm , Contemning the laws of his God . His blood like a furnace does boil , While quiet from his pillow doth fly ; Dread ...
... breast . When night re - asserts her dark reign Ensanguin'd revenge steps abroad , Then lifts the assassin his arm , Contemning the laws of his God . His blood like a furnace does boil , While quiet from his pillow doth fly ; Dread ...
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... What consolation have I left , But weary here to mourn . O ! could my humble honest plaint Reach noble H - t , Benevolence , that's in her breast , Would open straight the gate . A JUVENILE PRODUCTION . O LOVELY Mary , could my 60.
... What consolation have I left , But weary here to mourn . O ! could my humble honest plaint Reach noble H - t , Benevolence , that's in her breast , Would open straight the gate . A JUVENILE PRODUCTION . O LOVELY Mary , could my 60.
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... breasts of purest snow My senses do confound ; Those lips so moisten'd o'er with dew , Still deeper strike the wound . But beauty without virtue is A mere nonentity ; But when united with each grace , Its powers who can defy . In thee ...
... breasts of purest snow My senses do confound ; Those lips so moisten'd o'er with dew , Still deeper strike the wound . But beauty without virtue is A mere nonentity ; But when united with each grace , Its powers who can defy . In thee ...
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... breast , my heart's blood to boil , Make No earthly pleasure e'er could yield Such transport to my soul . WRITTEN ON THE BLANK LEAF OF THE EDIN- BURGH MUSICAL MISCELLANY , AT A VERY EARLY AGE . LADS and Lasses , tune your voices , Sing ...
... breast , my heart's blood to boil , Make No earthly pleasure e'er could yield Such transport to my soul . WRITTEN ON THE BLANK LEAF OF THE EDIN- BURGH MUSICAL MISCELLANY , AT A VERY EARLY AGE . LADS and Lasses , tune your voices , Sing ...
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... breast ne'er let vice enter , From envy keep your heart still free ; Make virtue still your close companion ; Contented live and peaceful die . BONAPARTE'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW . Written extempore upon reading the twenty- ninth Bulletin ...
... breast ne'er let vice enter , From envy keep your heart still free ; Make virtue still your close companion ; Contented live and peaceful die . BONAPARTE'S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW . Written extempore upon reading the twenty- ninth Bulletin ...
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Page 8 - In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write.
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