Human Life: A Poem, Parte340John Murray, 1819 - 100 páginas |
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... wild and wondrous change , As any that the wandering tribes require , Stretched in the desert round their evening - fire ; As any sung of old in hall or bower To minstrel - harps at midnight's witching - hour ! Born in a trance , we ...
... wild and wondrous change , As any that the wandering tribes require , Stretched in the desert round their evening - fire ; As any sung of old in hall or bower To minstrel - harps at midnight's witching - hour ! Born in a trance , we ...
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... And such is Human Life , the general theme . Ah , what at best , what but a longer dream ? Though with such wild romantic wanderings fraught , Such forms in Fancy's richest colouring wrought , That , like the visions of a love - sick 12.
... And such is Human Life , the general theme . Ah , what at best , what but a longer dream ? Though with such wild romantic wanderings fraught , Such forms in Fancy's richest colouring wrought , That , like the visions of a love - sick 12.
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... wild desire , And high imagining and thought of fire ! Then from within a voice exclaims " Aspire ! ” Phantoms , that upward point , before him pass , As in the Cave athwart the Wizard's glass ; They , that on Youth a grace , a lustre 24.
... wild desire , And high imagining and thought of fire ! Then from within a voice exclaims " Aspire ! ” Phantoms , that upward point , before him pass , As in the Cave athwart the Wizard's glass ; They , that on Youth a grace , a lustre 24.
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... wild bees swarm with ceaseless hum , Dreaming old dreams - a joy for years to come ; Or on the Rock within the sacred Fane ; Scenes such as Milton sought , but sought in vain : i D. And Milton's self , apart with beaming eye , * 25.
... wild bees swarm with ceaseless hum , Dreaming old dreams - a joy for years to come ; Or on the Rock within the sacred Fane ; Scenes such as Milton sought , but sought in vain : i D. And Milton's self , apart with beaming eye , * 25.
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... wild As of a mother singing to her child . All now in anguish from that room retire , Where a young cheek glows with consuming fire , And Innocence breathes contagion - all but one , But she who gave it birth - from her alone The ...
... wild As of a mother singing to her child . All now in anguish from that room retire , Where a young cheek glows with consuming fire , And Innocence breathes contagion - all but one , But she who gave it birth - from her alone The ...
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Página 72 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Página 20 - Locked in her arms, his arms across her flung, (That name most dear for ever on his tongue) As with soft accents round her neck he clings, And, cheek to cheek, her lulling song she sings, How blest to feel the beatings of his heart, Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart ; Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love!
Página 72 - Her parents, the duke and duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber, reading...
Página 34 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly— pour A thousand melodies unheard before...
Página 21 - Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart : Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love ! But soon a nobler task demands her care, Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there. And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye — now many a written thought, Never to die, with many a lisping sweet, His moving, murmuring lips endeavour to repeat.
Página 65 - When by a good man's grave I muse alone, Methinks an Angel sits upon the stone ; Like those of old, on that thrice-hallowed night, Who sate and watched in raiment heavenly bright ; And, with a voice inspiring joy not fear, Says, pointing upward,
Página 8 - For now the caudle-cup is circling there, Now, glad at heart, the gossips breathe their prayer, And, crowding, stop the cradle to admire The babe, the sleeping image of his sire. A few short years — and then these sounds shall hail The day again, and gladness fill the vale ; So soon the child a youth, the youth a man, Eager to run the race his fathers ran. Then the huge ox shall yield the broad sirloin ; The ale...
Página 73 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.