The Poetical Works of William Collins, Volumen1W. Pickering, 1830 - 150 páginas |
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... Round a holy calm diffusing , Love of peace and lonely musing , In hollow murmurs died away . " There are those who will think the praises thus bestowed upon Collins extravagant . It is now sixty years since I became familiar with him ...
... Round a holy calm diffusing , Love of peace and lonely musing , In hollow murmurs died away . " There are those who will think the praises thus bestowed upon Collins extravagant . It is now sixty years since I became familiar with him ...
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... round , an hideous form , Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms join'd , Who prompt to deeds accursed the mind : And those , the fiends ...
... round , an hideous form , Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms join'd , Who prompt to deeds accursed the mind : And those , the fiends ...
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... round thy green retreat ; | On whose enamel'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allured thy future feet . O sister meek of Truth , To my admiring youth , Thy sober aid and native charms infuse ! The flowers that sweetest ...
... round thy green retreat ; | On whose enamel'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allured thy future feet . O sister meek of Truth , To my admiring youth , Thy sober aid and native charms infuse ! The flowers that sweetest ...
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... To aid some mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale ; Where oft my reed might sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature , learn my tale . 46 50 ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER , As once , -if 30 ODES .
... To aid some mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale ; Where oft my reed might sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature , learn my tale . 46 50 ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER , As once , -if 30 ODES .
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... round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the valleys deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown , its springs unlock , While on its rich ambitious head , An Eden , like his own , lies spread : I view that oak ...
... round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the valleys deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown , its springs unlock , While on its rich ambitious head , An Eden , like his own , lies spread : I view that oak ...
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Abra admiration allegorical appear bard beautiful blank verse blest breathe character charm Chichester Circassia Collins's Colonel Martin CYMBELINE death delight demyship drest E'en Eclogues expression eyes fair fame Fancy Fear feel flowers fond genius grace Gray grief grove hair hand happy harmony hear heart honour hope hour imagery imagination inspired isle Johnson Joseph Warton lived lyre Magdalen College magic maid merit midst mind moral mountains mourn murmurs Muse myrtles native nature numbers nymph o'er Oxford passions pastoral Pity Pity's plain poems poet poet's poetical poetry pour'd Queen's College racter rage Richard Collins rove royal Abbas scene sentiment shade Shakespeare shepherds SIR THOMAS HANMER sister song Sophocles sound strain sublime sullen sung swain sweet taste tears tender thee Theocritus Thomas Warton Thomson thou thought tion toil truth vale VARIATIONS verse Warton wild William Collins writing youth
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Página 61 - Tempe's vale, her native maids, Amidst the festal sounding shades, To some unwearied minstrel dancing, While, as his flying fingers kiss'd the strings, Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round ; Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound : And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Página 60 - Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Página 87 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Página 50 - Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds or driving rain Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires ; And hears their simple bell ; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 9 - Schiraz' walls I bent my way." At that dead hour the silent asp shall creep, If aught of rest I find, upon my sleep : Or some swoln serpent twist his scales around, And wake to anguish with a burning wound. Thrice happy they, the wise contented poor, From lust of wealth, and dread of death secure!
Página 61 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best. They would have thought who heard the strain. They saw in Tempe's...
Página lix - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Página 49 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Página 110 - Ye mute companions of my toils, that bear In all my griefs a more than equal share, Here, where no springs in murmurs break away, Or...
Página 63 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave; The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its poet's sylvan grave. In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp shall now be laid, That he, whose heart in sorrow bleeds, May love through life the soothing shade.