The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... sacred round , Should keep , among their rapid cars , A silence so profound ! A kind , a philosophic calm The cool creation wears ! And what Day drank of dewy balm , The gentle Night repairs . Behind their leafy curtains hid , The ...
... sacred round , Should keep , among their rapid cars , A silence so profound ! A kind , a philosophic calm The cool creation wears ! And what Day drank of dewy balm , The gentle Night repairs . Behind their leafy curtains hid , The ...
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... sacred Truth behind : Yet sometimes , through the deep obscure , She bursts upon the mind . Sleep and her sister Silence reign ; They lock the shepherd's fold : But hark - I hear a lamb complain , ' Tis lost upon the world ! To'savage ...
... sacred Truth behind : Yet sometimes , through the deep obscure , She bursts upon the mind . Sleep and her sister Silence reign ; They lock the shepherd's fold : But hark - I hear a lamb complain , ' Tis lost upon the world ! To'savage ...
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... sacred well , Arch'd beneath yon reverend shades , Whilom , in that shatter'd cell , Many a hermit told his beads . Sultry mists surround the heath Where the Gothic dome appears , O'er the trembling groves beneath Tottering with a load ...
... sacred well , Arch'd beneath yon reverend shades , Whilom , in that shatter'd cell , Many a hermit told his beads . Sultry mists surround the heath Where the Gothic dome appears , O'er the trembling groves beneath Tottering with a load ...
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... ! And Piety , with mystic - meaning beads , Bowing to saints on every side inurn'd , Trod oft the solitary path that leads Where now the sacred altar lies o'erturn'd ! Through the gray grove , between those withering trees , 28 CUNNINGHAM .
... ! And Piety , with mystic - meaning beads , Bowing to saints on every side inurn'd , Trod oft the solitary path that leads Where now the sacred altar lies o'erturn'd ! Through the gray grove , between those withering trees , 28 CUNNINGHAM .
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... sacred Nine Sooth , with his melody , insatiate Death ? No : -though the palace bar her golden gate , Or monarchs plant ten thousand guards around ; Unerring and unseen , the shaft of fate Strikes the devoted victim to the ground ! What ...
... sacred Nine Sooth , with his melody , insatiate Death ? No : -though the palace bar her golden gate , Or monarchs plant ten thousand guards around ; Unerring and unseen , the shaft of fate Strikes the devoted victim to the ground ! What ...
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