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... never are the poet's numbers more worthily sung - never is his lyre more sweetly tuned - than when devoted to the praise of HIM from whom all ideas of the pure , the holy , and the beautiful , proceed . To my Infant Son Hymn Stanzas ...
... never are the poet's numbers more worthily sung - never is his lyre more sweetly tuned - than when devoted to the praise of HIM from whom all ideas of the pure , the holy , and the beautiful , proceed . To my Infant Son Hymn Stanzas ...
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... never may dishonour rest Its cloud upon thy name ; But mayst thou early learn to prize The plaudits of the good and wise Alone as real fame ; Nor let the race absorb thy soul , But keep thine eye fixed on the goal ! Thy mother ! never ...
... never may dishonour rest Its cloud upon thy name ; But mayst thou early learn to prize The plaudits of the good and wise Alone as real fame ; Nor let the race absorb thy soul , But keep thine eye fixed on the goal ! Thy mother ! never ...
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... never shall yield : And I prayed that his grace might support me for ever , My Rock and my Refuge , my Sun and my Shield . How bitterly then did my conscience upbraid me ; For the least of my crimes I had nothing to plead ; But I ...
... never shall yield : And I prayed that his grace might support me for ever , My Rock and my Refuge , my Sun and my Shield . How bitterly then did my conscience upbraid me ; For the least of my crimes I had nothing to plead ; But I ...
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... happiness of all : Hence love and adoration ; -never could The contrite spirit at His footstool fall , If power , and power alone , its feelings did appal . C 32 A CHURCHYARD SCENE . If then divinest power be Power and Benevolence.
... happiness of all : Hence love and adoration ; -never could The contrite spirit at His footstool fall , If power , and power alone , its feelings did appal . C 32 A CHURCHYARD SCENE . If then divinest power be Power and Benevolence.
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... Never the same , never mute , never still , -- Emblems of all that is fickle and gay , But leaves in their birth , but leaves in decay— Chide them not - heed them not - spirit , away Into thyself , to thine own hidden shrine , What ...
... Never the same , never mute , never still , -- Emblems of all that is fickle and gay , But leaves in their birth , but leaves in decay— Chide them not - heed them not - spirit , away Into thyself , to thine own hidden shrine , What ...
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Términos y frases comunes
angels beauty beneath birds bless blest bliss breast breath bright child Christian clouds cold comes dark dead death deep dream dwell earth earthly eternal fair faith fall fear feel fled flowers give gloom glorious glory gone grave green grief hand harp hast hath head hear heard heart heaven holy hope hour human land leaf leaves light lips live look Lord memory mind morn mortal mother's never night o'er once pain pass past path peace pleasure praise prayer pride rest rise roll rose round scene shine sigh skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring star sweet tears tell thee thine things thou Thou art thought throne tomb tree truth voice watch wave wild winds wings young youth
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Página 200 - 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.
Página 57 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Página 90 - The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control, But in the quietness of thought.
Página 58 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Página 163 - WHEN Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her moved, An awful guide in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonish'd lands, The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimson'd sands Return'd the fiery column's glow.
Página 111 - Thou art gone to the grave ! we no longer behold thee, Nor tread the rough path of the world by thy side ; But the wide arms of Mercy are spread to enfold thee, And sinners may hope, since the Sinless has died.
Página 89 - STERN Daughter of the voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove...
Página 57 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 190 - Christ is born, the great Anointed, Heaven and earth his praises sing; O ! receive, whom God appointed, For your Prophet, Priest, and King. 5 Hasten, mortals, to adore Him, Learn his name and taste his joy; Till in heaven ye sing before Him, Glory be to God most high...
Página 232 - The changing spirit's rise and fall ; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all. He suffer'd, — but his pangs are o'er ; Enjoy'd, — but his delights are fled ; Had friends, — his friends are now no more ; And foes, — his foes are dead.