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... age ; There as it glow'd , with noblest frenzy fraught , Dispense the treasures of exalted thought ; To Virtue wake the pulses of the heart , And bid the tear of emulation start ! Oh could it still , through each succeeding year , My ...
... age ; There as it glow'd , with noblest frenzy fraught , Dispense the treasures of exalted thought ; To Virtue wake the pulses of the heart , And bid the tear of emulation start ! Oh could it still , through each succeeding year , My ...
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... age beloved , in poverty revered ; In Friendship's silent register ye live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give . -But when the sons of peace , of pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , What spells entrance my ...
... age beloved , in poverty revered ; In Friendship's silent register ye live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give . -But when the sons of peace , of pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , What spells entrance my ...
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... age has quench'd the eye , and closed the ear , Oft at the silent , shadowy close of day , Still nerved for action in her native sphere , Oft will she rise - with searching glance pursue Some long - loved image vanish'd from her view ...
... age has quench'd the eye , and closed the ear , Oft at the silent , shadowy close of day , Still nerved for action in her native sphere , Oft will she rise - with searching glance pursue Some long - loved image vanish'd from her view ...
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... age , Reviewing Life's eventful page ; And noting , ere they fade away , The little lines of yesterday . Florio had gain'd a rude and rocky seat , When lo , the Genius of this still retreat ! Fair was her form - but who can hope to ...
... age , Reviewing Life's eventful page ; And noting , ere they fade away , The little lines of yesterday . Florio had gain'd a rude and rocky seat , When lo , the Genius of this still retreat ! Fair was her form - but who can hope to ...
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... age to age unnumber'd treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey , And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own . Lighter than air ...
... age to age unnumber'd treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey , And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own . Lighter than air ...
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Page 150 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulph'rous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 149 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Page 485 - Deep horror then my vitals froze, death-struck, -I ceased the tide to stem; when suddenly a star arose — it was the Star of Bethlehem.
Page 485 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 351 - FRIEND after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying none were blest.
Page 149 - Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back;— Their shots along the deep slowly boom:— Then ceased— and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.
Page 116 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell — unwept— without a crime ! Found not a generous friend — a pitying foe — Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe ! Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear— Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career ! — Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked — as KOSCIUSKO fell!
Page 351 - Thus star by star declines, Till all are passed away, As morning high and higher shines, To pure and perfect day ; Nor sink those stars in empty night ; They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
Page 26 - ... an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 63 - When on an idle day, a day of search 'Mid the old lumber in the gallery, That mouldering chest was noticed ; and 'twas said By one as young, as thoughtless as GINEVRA, " Why not remove it from its lurking-place...