The poetical works of Horace Smith. 2vols1846 |
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... Night Song .. 187 The Song Vision 189 The Poet's Winter Song to his Wife . 192 Song to Fanny 194 Song to Fanny 195 The Birthday of Spring . 197 An Old Man's Aspiration ... Gipsies Life .. To a Lady The Charms of Life 200 203 206 208 211 ...
... Night Song .. 187 The Song Vision 189 The Poet's Winter Song to his Wife . 192 Song to Fanny 194 Song to Fanny 195 The Birthday of Spring . 197 An Old Man's Aspiration ... Gipsies Life .. To a Lady The Charms of Life 200 203 206 208 211 ...
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... night , From every source your sanction bids me treasure Harmless delight . Ephemeral sages ! what instructors hoary For such a world of thought could furnish scope ? Each fading calyx a memento mori , Yet fount of hope . Posthumous ...
... night , From every source your sanction bids me treasure Harmless delight . Ephemeral sages ! what instructors hoary For such a world of thought could furnish scope ? Each fading calyx a memento mori , Yet fount of hope . Posthumous ...
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... And thus , abandon'd to the sway Of the blind wind and watery element , Through the whole night the Argo bore Those throbbing hearts along the Pontic shore . THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE . O SCENE of enchantment 34 THE SHRIEK OF PROMETHEUS .
... And thus , abandon'd to the sway Of the blind wind and watery element , Through the whole night the Argo bore Those throbbing hearts along the Pontic shore . THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE . O SCENE of enchantment 34 THE SHRIEK OF PROMETHEUS .
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... night , with convulsions and throes , Did Earth her sepulchral recesses unclose , And heave up a monster , the world to affright , Terrific of purpose , tremendous in might , Though his features to none might he ever reveal . Gladness ...
... night , with convulsions and throes , Did Earth her sepulchral recesses unclose , And heave up a monster , the world to affright , Terrific of purpose , tremendous in might , Though his features to none might he ever reveal . Gladness ...
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... night ; We ransack'd each single height , hollow , or dingle , Till shoreward we wended , when starkly extended , His corpse lay before us -- Oh God ! what a sight ! And yet was there nothing for terror or loathing . The blood had been ...
... night ; We ransack'd each single height , hollow , or dingle , Till shoreward we wended , when starkly extended , His corpse lay before us -- Oh God ! what a sight ! And yet was there nothing for terror or loathing . The blood had been ...
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Adam and Eve bard beauty Behold beneath BINSTEAD birds birth bless bliss bloom bosom bound bowers breath bright charms CHOLERA choral COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS COLBURN'S STANDARD Constantinople Cuckoo dark death deep delight dost dread Duke of Wellington dust earth so surpassingly EGYPT EVANS LLOYD eyes fame Fanny fear feel flowers gaze George Cruikshank gibbet give gladness gloom Gorgon grace grave Greece Hail to thee Hark harp and hymn hath hear heart HENRY COLBURN holy hope hymn Thy downward king life's light lips live Lovely or rare MADAME D'ARBLAY Mehemet Ali mind mirth moral Nature's night Nubia o'er scenes shuddering shut Sicilian Arethusa sight silent Sir Walter Scott small 8vo smiles song soul Spain spirit Spring stamp'd surpassingly fair sweet tears thine thou'rt dim thought thrill Thy downward course tomb trees voice volumes wave winds
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Página 8 - Neath cloistered boughs each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer : Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane most catholic and solemn Which God hath plann'd,— To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply, Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky.
Página 8 - To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply — Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky. There — as in solitude and shade I wander Through the green aisles, or, stretched upon the sod, Awed by the silence, reverently ponder The ways of God...
Página 13 - Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass, Or held, by Solomon's own invitation, A torch at the great temple's dedication. I need not ask thee if that hand, when...
Página 11 - Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Página 73 - There is ! there is ! One primitive and sure ; Religion pure, Unchanged in spirit, though its forms and codes Wear myriad modes, Contains all creeds within its mighty span ; The love of God displayed in love of man.
Página 13 - We have, above-ground, seen some strange mutations: The Roman empire has begun and ended, New worlds have risen, we have lost old nations, And countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled.