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I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath the soil, To slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. For Misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild : I perish; — O my mother Earth, Take home thy child ...
I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath the soil, To slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. For Misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild : I perish; — O my mother Earth, Take home thy child ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
age to age amidst arms beams beauty behold beneath birth blest bliss blood bosom breast breath CANTO captive clouds dark dead dear death deep delight despair dream earth eternal Euphrates face father fear fire flame fled flood flowers foes Fulneck gloom glory grace grave Greenland hand hath heart heaven hope immortal JAMES MONTGOMERY Javan land light living Lord lyre MISCELLANEOUS MONTGOMERY S POEMS moon morning mother's mountains Nature's night numbers o'er ocean pale pass'd peace prayer race reign rest RICHARD REYNOLDS rise rocks roll'd rose round scene seem'd shade shadow shadows roll shine shore skies slaves slumber smile song Songs of praise sorrow soul spirit star storm sublime sweet Switzerland tears tempest thee thine thou throne toil tomb tongue trembling turn'd Twas vale vanish'd voice Wanderer waves weep WEST INDIES wild wind wings youth Zillah
Passagens conhecidas
Página 418 - Jehovah's work begun, When he spake and it was done. 2 Songs of praise awoke the morn, When the Prince of peace was born ; Songs of praise arose, when he Captive led captivity. 3 Heaven and earth must pass away; Songs of praise shall crown that. day: God will make new heavens and earth : Songs of praise shall hail their birth.
Página 421 - ANGELS, from the realms of glory, Wing your flight o'er all the earth ; Ye, who sang creation's story, Now proclaim Messiah's birth : Come and worship, Worship Christ, the new-born King.
Página 252 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Página 42 - Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Página 403 - The voice at midnight came; He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Página 417 - Lonely I no longer roam, Like the cloud, the wind, the wave, Where you dwell shall be my home, Where you die shall be my grave : Mine the God whom you adore, Your Redeemer shall be mine ; Earth can fill my heart no more, Every idol I resign.
Página 43 - THERE is a land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons emparadise the night ; A land of beauty, virtue...
Página 411 - HARK, the song of jubilee, Loud as mighty thunders roar, Or the fulness of the sea, When it breaks upon the shore : Hallelujah ! for the Lord God Omnipotent shall reign ; Hallelujah ! let the word Echo round the earth and main.
Página 406 - Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high.
Página 420 - Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years ; And all that life is love. 4 There is a death whose pang Outlasts the fleeting breath ; O what eternal horrors hang Around
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The poetical works of James Montgomery, with a memoir Landscape ser. of poets |
| Autor | James Montgomery |
| Editora | Frederick Warne and Company, 1881 |
| Original de | Universidade de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 4 Ago 2006 |
| Número de páginas | 535 páginas |
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