Poetic hours; consisting of poems, original and translated; stanzas for music &cLongman, Hurst, Rees, 1825 - 200 páginas |
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... brow is a brighter heaven . I love the dews of morn to sip From the rose and the violet blue ; But a fairer flower is my Mary's lip , And ' tis wet with a softer dew . I love to look on every streak That paints the varied west ; But the ...
... brow is a brighter heaven . I love the dews of morn to sip From the rose and the violet blue ; But a fairer flower is my Mary's lip , And ' tis wet with a softer dew . I love to look on every streak That paints the varied west ; But the ...
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... brow , The fiend Consumption , with unpitying hand , Had twined his wreath of hectics ! Yet methought In that so woe - worn cheek and pensive eye , The seraph Sorrow did so meekly sit That ne'er looked Joy more lovely . - No one knew ...
... brow , The fiend Consumption , with unpitying hand , Had twined his wreath of hectics ! Yet methought In that so woe - worn cheek and pensive eye , The seraph Sorrow did so meekly sit That ne'er looked Joy more lovely . - No one knew ...
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... faded form , this cheek of pain , This pale brow blanched to sorrow's hue , These pallid looks , and eyes that rain With tears , that only fall for you ! Yet breathe again that blissful word , That o'er my 40 Stanzas.
... faded form , this cheek of pain , This pale brow blanched to sorrow's hue , These pallid looks , and eyes that rain With tears , that only fall for you ! Yet breathe again that blissful word , That o'er my 40 Stanzas.
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... brow ; the princess heard That minstrel's name , and see ! her look of pride Is changed to very anguish , and her eye Drowns all its scorn in sorrow ; strait she bade Her damsels guide her to her minstrel's bark , And stood beside his ...
... brow ; the princess heard That minstrel's name , and see ! her look of pride Is changed to very anguish , and her eye Drowns all its scorn in sorrow ; strait she bade Her damsels guide her to her minstrel's bark , And stood beside his ...
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... brow , In languid tones , and numbers faint , I welcome thee , meek suff'ring saint ! For I , from childhood's earliest hour , Have own'd , soft nurse , thy chastening power , And round my brow the hectics twine That surely mark the vot ...
... brow , In languid tones , and numbers faint , I welcome thee , meek suff'ring saint ! For I , from childhood's earliest hour , Have own'd , soft nurse , thy chastening power , And round my brow the hectics twine That surely mark the vot ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ALBUM Ave Maria banks of Loire beauteous beauty Beauty's bless blest bliss boon bower brave breathe bride bright brow charms cheek couch Cupid dark dear dirge divine divinest doom dream e'en e'er earth Emma faint fair fair Lady Falernian wine FALL OF BYZANTIUM fav'rite flowers flute Friendship gentlest gloom glow grace grove hallow'd hark haste hath hear heard heart heaven holiest holy hour Hymen hymn joys lady lips lord Lorenzo lov'd Love's lover lute lyre Maecenas meek methought minstrel Muse ne'er night Nymph o'er pale pilgrim prayer PYRRHA roam rose rosy Sabbath-bell sacred Sappho scarce seem'd seraph shades shore shrine sleep smile soar soft song soon sooth sorrows soul spirit STANZAS strains sweet sweetest tear thee thine thou art tomb Twas twilight twine Venus vesper wake weep wine woes would'st yonder young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 47 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 23 - Men neither could nor would resist 'em ; For Hymen's fires inflamed their breast, And Cupid's arrows seldom missed 'em. But changing thus their arms about, The boys became perplexed and stupid ; Love puts the torch of Hymen out, While Hymen blunts the shafts of Cupid.
Página 96 - Heaven'. how horrible it is to be A prey to the wild waters, to contend, And feel how vain the contest, with the waves, Th...
Página 123 - O ! I would roam around thy turrets, while They bask in moonlight beauty, while Romance Wakes the high visions of her holiest trance, And bids her fairest forms the night beguile.
Página 48 - I would not but hear my mother's voice! I would not but bid her heart rejoice! For all the mines of wealth that sleep In the bottomless caves of the ocean deep!
Página vii - THE following effusions were written, chiefly, at an early age, and under circumstances little favourable to poetical pursuits.
Página 26 - And, ere he sunk beneath the flood, To bless it with a parting smile. So when the Christian's day is past, Tis his to chase the twilight gloom, To glow the brighter at the last, And gild with glory e'en the tomb.
Página 81 - Thy words are daggers—spare them then. Alas! How short is woman's triumph o'er herself. A brief uncertain time she may o'erpass Her sex's limits, for...
Página 10 - Ah, no! that hope I fear is o'er, I bid the dear deceit farewell; And scarce may hope to hear once more The music of the Sabbath-bell.
Página 37 - Who sung so passing sweet, and every eve, From yonder vine-wreathed window, breathed so soft Her vespers to the Virgin...