The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten BooksCrocker and Brewster, 1828 - 247 páginas |
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age to age angels bard beheld beneath bliss blood blood divine breath burning busked chariots of fire curse damned dark death deeds deep divine earth earthly endless endless pain eternal everlasting evermore face fair faith fear fell fools gave gazed glorious glory God's grace grew groan hand happiness harp hast heard heart heaven heavenly hell hills holy honour hope horrid immortal infinite Jehovah light living look and smile looked loud lyre mercy Messiah morn mortal mortal vision naught ne'er night numbers o'er Omnipotent passed peace praise pride redeemed retired righteous rolled rose round sacred saints Satan seemed seen seraph sighs sight sincere sing smiled song sought soul stars stood sung sweet thee things thou thought throne took truth Twas utter vale virtue voice walked weep wicked winds wing wisdom withered wonder wondrous words wrath youth
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Página 22 - Star of eternity ! the only star By which the bark of man could navigate The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss Securely ! only star which rose on Time, And, on its dark and troubled billows, still, As generation, drifting swiftly by, Succeeded generation, threw a ray Of heaven's own light, and to the hills of God, The eternal hills, pointed the sinner's eye.
Página 90 - Of fame ; drank early, deeply drank ; drank draughts That common millions might have quenched — then died Of thirst, because there was no more to drink.
Página 111 - And now her eyes grew bright, and brighter still, Too bright for ours to look upon, suffused With many tears, and closed without a cloud. They set as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides • Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Página 98 - Stood ready for the reaper's gathering hand, And all the winds slept soundly. Nature seemed In silent contemplation to adore Its Maker. Now and then the aged leaf Fell from its fellows, rustling to the ground, And as it fell bade man think on his end. On vale and lake, on wood and mountain high, With pensive wing outspread, sat heavenly Thought Conversing with itself.
Página 184 - He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in...
Página 223 - Too heavy to be borne ; so industry — To meditate, to plan, resolve, perform, Which in itself is good— as surely brings Reward of good, no matter what be done : And such reward the Devil had, as long As the decrees eternal gave him space To work.
Página 85 - One man there was, — and many such you might Have met — who never had a dozen thoughts In all his life, and never changed their course...
Página 98 - ... outspread, sat heavenly Thought, Conversing with itself. Vesper looked forth, From out her western hermitage, and smiled; And up the east unclouded, rode the Moon With all her stars, gazing on earth intense, As if she saw some wonder walking there. Such was the night, so lovely, still, serene, When, by a hermit thorn that on the hill Had seen a hundred flowery ages pass, A damsel kneeled to offer up her prayer— Her prayer nightly offered, nightly heard. This ancient thorn had been the...
Página 150 - Return the stream of life in healthy flow : And as the anatomist, with all his band Of rude disciples, o'er the subject hung, And impolitely hewed his way, through bones And muscles of the sacred human form, Exposing barbarously to wanton gaze, The mysteries of nature, joint embraced His kindred joint, the wounded flesh grew up, And suddenly the injured man awoke Among their hands, and stood arrayed complete In immortality — forgiving scarce The insult offered to his clay in death.
Página 161 - ... puny skill, From age to age enduring and unchanged, Majestical, inimitable, vast, Loud uttering satire, day and night, on each Succeeding race, and little pompous work Of man ! — unfallen, religious, holy Sea, Thou bowedst thy glorious head to none, fearedst none, Heardst none, to none didst honour, but to God Thy Maker, only worthy to receive Thy great obeisance ! Undiscovered Sea ! Into thy dark, unknown, mysterious caves, And secret haunts, unfathomably deep, Beneath all visible retired,...