Scenes from the Flood: The Tenth Plague, Or, The First-born of Egypt Smitten, and Other PoemsRobertson & Atkinson, 1830 - 224 páginas |
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amid angel's eye bark beauteous beautiful beneath blast blue bosom bowers breast breath breeze bright brow calm clime clouds creation dark dark angel dead death DENDERA desert despair dreams eagle earth Egypt Eternal fair falchion fathers flowers flung frozen deep gazed ghastly giant gloom glorious glory grave hath heard heart heaven hills hour hung hush'd INDIAN ARMY land life's lifeless light lips lone look look'd mighty mighty heart millions monarch moon mountains nature's neath night o'er the deep ocean orbs pass'd perish'd Pharaoh roll roll'd round SCENE seem'd seraphs shed shining shroud silence sleep slumber smile smote solitary solitude soul spirit star stood storm sublime sunshine tear tempest temples thee thou❜lt thousand throne thunder turn'd Twas voice wandering waste waves weary wild wild palm wing wish for wings wither'd wrath wreck ye stars
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Página 33 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Página 40 - Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and of cattle and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Página 134 - And he saw them toiling in rowing ; for the wind was contrary unto them : and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. 49 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out: 50 For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
Página ii - POPE'S soft song tho' all the Graces breathe, And happiest art adorn his Attic page; Yet does my mind with sweeter transport glow, As at the root of mossy trunk reclin'd, In magic SPENSER'S wildly-warbled song I see deserted Una wander wide Thro...
Página 37 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month : in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Página ii - In magic Spenser's wildly warbled song • I see deserted Una wander wide Through wasteful solitudes and lurid heaths, Weary, forlorn; than where the fated * fair Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames, Launches in all the lustre of brocade, Amid the splendors of the laughing sun; The gay description palls upon the sense And coldly strikes the mind with feeble bliss.
Página 125 - Moore, Author of" The African, a Tale, and other Poems." SISTER ! is this an hour for sleep ?— Should slumber mar a daughter's prayer, When drinks her Father on the deep Death's chalice in despair ? Though I have rested in the grave Long with oblivion's ghastly crowd, Yet the wild tempest on the wave Has roused me from my shroud. 'Tis but a few short days since he, Our Father, left his native land, And I was there, when by the sea Ye wept,— and grasp'd each parting hand ; I hover'd o'er ye when...
Página 58 - Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters : and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Página 136 - ... a grove or avenue produces an effect of striking solemnity not unlike that of Gothic architecture. There were some splendid South American creepers ; some plantains, from the Malayan Archipelago, of vast size and great beauty ; and, what excited a melancholy kind of interest, a little wretched oak, kept alive with difficulty under a sky and in a temperature so perpetually stimulating, which allowed it no героъе, or time to shed its leaves, and recruit its powers by hybernation.
Página 126 - I saw the bark in sunshine quit Our own romantic shore ;— Thou hear'st the tempest — it hath smit The proudest,— now no more ; Amid the ocean's solitude Unseen I trode its armied deck And watch'd our Father, when he stood In battle and in wreck ! But stronger than a spirit's arm Is his who measures out the sky, Who rides upon the volley'd storm When it comes sweeping by: The tempest rose ;— I saw it burst Like death upon the ocean's sleep ; The warriors nobly strove at first, But perish'd...