Poems on Various Subjects, Volumen63author, 1803 - 441 páginas |
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... wont their sprightly gambols to disclose , Slow wand'ring sheep gaze round with vacant eye , While sullen rocks return their plaintive cry : Pensive and slow , I climb the mountain brow , To view each social hamlet's mutual plough ...
... wont their sprightly gambols to disclose , Slow wand'ring sheep gaze round with vacant eye , While sullen rocks return their plaintive cry : Pensive and slow , I climb the mountain brow , To view each social hamlet's mutual plough ...
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... wont along the funeral path to flow , That , while our vanish'd comforts we deplore , Repeats emphatic , " They return no more * . " Go , hapless bards , and sing in other lands Your country's praise to charm her exil'd bands ; And ...
... wont along the funeral path to flow , That , while our vanish'd comforts we deplore , Repeats emphatic , " They return no more * . " Go , hapless bards , and sing in other lands Your country's praise to charm her exil'd bands ; And ...
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... wont to yield ; With one consent they trace the general plan , And blended interests form the social man : Hence gradual ties of kind endearment flow , Hence bland address and courteous actions grow ; And hence th ' unstudied manners of ...
... wont to yield ; With one consent they trace the general plan , And blended interests form the social man : Hence gradual ties of kind endearment flow , Hence bland address and courteous actions grow ; And hence th ' unstudied manners of ...
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... wont on aged rocks to grow , Shall make the various woof with purple glow : The housewife pleas'd the varied gifts beholds , While hope anticipates the checker'd folds ; And colours of the home - made drapery , Pride of her heart , and ...
... wont on aged rocks to grow , Shall make the various woof with purple glow : The housewife pleas'd the varied gifts beholds , While hope anticipates the checker'd folds ; And colours of the home - made drapery , Pride of her heart , and ...
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... wont to range , And vers'd in every planetary change ; Why meteors glare , or wand'ring comets blaze , And which propitious , which unlucky days ; Directs what time to yoke the mutual plough , And when to feed the weakly flocks below ...
... wont to range , And vers'd in every planetary change ; Why meteors glare , or wand'ring comets blaze , And which propitious , which unlucky days ; Directs what time to yoke the mutual plough , And when to feed the weakly flocks below ...
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Términos y frases comunes
artless bard beams beauty blast blest bloom bosom breast breath bright brow charms cheer Chief CLAN cries crown'd dark dear death deck deck'd disarming act drest eyes fair faithful fancy FARQUHAR fatal fate Fingalian FLORA FLORA MACDONALD foes Fort Augustus Gaelic Genius gentle Glendoe Glenmoriston gloom glow grace Grampian mountains grove haunts heart Highland Laddie Highlanders humble isle kind KINGSBURGH lady light Loch Laggan lofty lonely lov'd lyre maid mind MOOME mountains mournful Muse native Nature's nymph o'er OSSIAN peace pensive plain pleas'd pleasure poem pow'r PRINCE race RALPH ABERCROMBY rocks round sacred scene shades shine shore skies smile soft song soothe sorrow soul South Uist spread storm strain strath stream swains sweet tears tender thee thou thro toils tow'rs trace truth Twas vale virtues wandering weary wild wind wont youth
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Página 55 - And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
Página 259 - That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd Urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud.
Página 405 - O WHERE, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone? O where, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone...
Página 29 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Página 407 - A bonnet, with a lofty plume! the gallant badge of War; And a plaid across the manly breast that yet shall wear a Star! Suppose, ah'! suppose that some cruel, cruel, wound Should pierce your Highland Laddie; and all your hopes confound!
Página 276 - O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood ! But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the Herald of the Sea That came in Neptune's plea.
Página 406 - O what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear ? O what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear ? " " A bonnet with a lofty plume, the gallant badge of war; And a plaid across the manly breast, that yet shall wear a star.
Página 40 - WHERE yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening glens that intervene Still shelter, in some lowly nook obscure One poorer than the rest — where all are poor ; Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines her grief; Dejected sighs the wintry night away, And lonely muses all the summer day : Her gallant sons, who, smit with honour's charms, Pursued the phantom Fame through war's alarms, Return no more; stretched on...
Página 234 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices...
Página 407 - But I will hope to see him yet, in Scotland's bonny bounds; But I will hope to see him yet, in Scotland's bonny bounds. His native land of liberty shall nurse his glorious wounds, While wide, through all our Highland hills, his warlike name resounds.