Poems on Various Subjects, Volume 63author, 1803 - 441 páginas |
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... pow'r the willing heart , Where are you now ? across the Atlantic's roar , Do your sad eyes your native hills explore ? Or homeward do you strain your aching view , Where restless waves each other still pursue ? Where angry billows meet ...
... pow'r the willing heart , Where are you now ? across the Atlantic's roar , Do your sad eyes your native hills explore ? Or homeward do you strain your aching view , Where restless waves each other still pursue ? Where angry billows meet ...
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... Pow'r . When Probity and Wisdom both combine , ' Tis indefeasible and right divine ; While all beneath the secret influence bow , And wait suspended the decision slow . Thus Grecian chiefs with mute attention heard , When hoary NESTOR ...
... Pow'r . When Probity and Wisdom both combine , ' Tis indefeasible and right divine ; While all beneath the secret influence bow , And wait suspended the decision slow . Thus Grecian chiefs with mute attention heard , When hoary NESTOR ...
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... pow'r withstood , Who reign'd despotic o'er the pathless wood . But see ! where Winter fierce array'd in storms , With early fury Nature's face deforms ; And pours his snows with wild unwonted haste , E'er scatter'd herds are brought ...
... pow'r withstood , Who reign'd despotic o'er the pathless wood . But see ! where Winter fierce array'd in storms , With early fury Nature's face deforms ; And pours his snows with wild unwonted haste , E'er scatter'd herds are brought ...
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... Pow'r " Who guards us in the dark and silent hour ? " From whom commission'd blasts have leave to fly , Or sleep within the curtains of the sky . * See note No. 17 . " Strong in his strength these horrors I explore , 63.
... Pow'r " Who guards us in the dark and silent hour ? " From whom commission'd blasts have leave to fly , Or sleep within the curtains of the sky . * See note No. 17 . " Strong in his strength these horrors I explore , 63.
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... pow'r ; But from some cot perhaps not far away , He slunk insidious with his helpless prey . Forward with eager speed again he goes , And traces up th ' ascent th ' ensanguin'd snows ; Eastward he bends , till weak , and spent with toil ...
... pow'r ; But from some cot perhaps not far away , He slunk insidious with his helpless prey . Forward with eager speed again he goes , And traces up th ' ascent th ' ensanguin'd snows ; Eastward he bends , till weak , and spent with toil ...
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artless bard beams beauty blast blest bloom bosom breast breath bright brow charms cheer Chief CLAN cries crown'd dark dear death deck deck'd disarming act drest eyes fair faithful fancy FARQUHAR fatal fate Fingalian FLORA FLORA MACDONALD foes Fort Augustus Gaelic Genius gentle Glendoe Glenmoriston gloom glow grace Grampian mountains grove haunts heart Highland Laddie Highlanders humble isle kind KINGSBURGH lady light Loch Laggan lofty lonely lov'd lyre maid mind MOOME mountains mournful Muse native Nature's nymph o'er OSSIAN peace pensive plain pleas'd pleasure poem pow'r PRINCE race RALPH ABERCROMBY rocks round sacred scene shades shine shore skies smile soft song soothe sorrow soul South Uist spread storm strain strath stream swains sweet tears tender thee thou thro toils tow'rs trace truth Twas vale virtues wandering weary wild wind wont youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 55 - And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
Página 259 - That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd Urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud.
Página 405 - O WHERE, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone? O where, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone...
Página 29 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Página 407 - A bonnet, with a lofty plume! the gallant badge of War; And a plaid across the manly breast that yet shall wear a Star! Suppose, ah'! suppose that some cruel, cruel, wound Should pierce your Highland Laddie; and all your hopes confound!
Página 276 - O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood ! But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the Herald of the Sea That came in Neptune's plea.
Página 406 - O what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear ? O what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear ? " " A bonnet with a lofty plume, the gallant badge of war; And a plaid across the manly breast, that yet shall wear a star.
Página 40 - WHERE yonder ridgy mountains bound the scene, The narrow opening glens that intervene Still shelter, in some lowly nook obscure One poorer than the rest — where all are poor ; Some widowed matron, hopeless of relief, Who to her secret breast confines her grief; Dejected sighs the wintry night away, And lonely muses all the summer day : Her gallant sons, who, smit with honour's charms, Pursued the phantom Fame through war's alarms, Return no more; stretched on...
Página 234 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices...
Página 407 - But I will hope to see him yet, in Scotland's bonny bounds; But I will hope to see him yet, in Scotland's bonny bounds. His native land of liberty shall nurse his glorious wounds, While wide, through all our Highland hills, his warlike name resounds.