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... soul Be that base aim ! ) but haply to deter , From flattering the gross vulgar , future pens . Powerful like thine in every grace , and skilled To win the listening soul with virtuous charms . We cannot , we confess , transcribe these ...
... soul Be that base aim ! ) but haply to deter , From flattering the gross vulgar , future pens . Powerful like thine in every grace , and skilled To win the listening soul with virtuous charms . We cannot , we confess , transcribe these ...
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... soul of happiness , and all Is off the poise within : the passions all Have burst their bounds ; and reason half extinct , Or impotent , or else approving , sees The foul disorder . Senseless , and deform'd , Convulsive anger stormis at ...
... soul of happiness , and all Is off the poise within : the passions all Have burst their bounds ; and reason half extinct , Or impotent , or else approving , sees The foul disorder . Senseless , and deform'd , Convulsive anger stormis at ...
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... cannot paint , The breath of Nature , and her endless bloom . Hail , Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth ! Essential Presence , hail ! 520 530 540 550 To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my SPRING . 15.
... cannot paint , The breath of Nature , and her endless bloom . Hail , Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth ! Essential Presence , hail ! 520 530 540 550 To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my SPRING . 15.
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... soul of melody Into my varied verse ! while I deduce , From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings , The symphony of Spring , and touch a theme Unknown to fame , the passion of the groves . When first the soul of love is sent abroad ...
... soul of melody Into my varied verse ! while I deduce , From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings , The symphony of Spring , and touch a theme Unknown to fame , the passion of the groves . When first the soul of love is sent abroad ...
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... ' inspiring breath of ancient song ; Till nobly rises , emulous , thy own . Perhaps thy loved Lucinda shares thy walk , With soul to thine attuned . Then Nature all 900 910 920 93 ) Wears to the lover's eye a look of love ; SPRING . 25 25.
... ' inspiring breath of ancient song ; Till nobly rises , emulous , thy own . Perhaps thy loved Lucinda shares thy walk , With soul to thine attuned . Then Nature all 900 910 920 93 ) Wears to the lover's eye a look of love ; SPRING . 25 25.
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amid beam behold beneath blaze bliss bloom breast breath bright Britons brow calm CASTLE OF INDOLENCE charms cheerful clouds dark death deep delight dread E'en earth ether Eton College fair fame fancy fate fierce fire flame flood gale genius gloom glory glow grace Greece groves hand happy heart heaven Hence hills Julius Cæsar kings labour land Latium Liberty light luxury lyre Margaret of Anjou matchless mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Musidora Nature Nature's night nought o'er ODIN passions peace Pindar plain poison'd pomp pour'd pride race rage rapture reign rise Rome round sacred scene shade shine shore smile soft song sons soul spirit spread Spring storm stream swain sweet swelling tempest tender thee thine thou toil train trembling tyrant UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vale vex'd virtue waste wave whence wild winds wing woods youth
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Página 373 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 366 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
Página 366 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 179 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 369 - The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 368 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Página 378 - Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales and Ceres...
Página 125 - Through the hush'd air the whitening shower descends, At first thin wavering; till at last the flakes Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow.
Página 369 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 368 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.