Miscellaneous Poems: On Moral and Religious Subjects |
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... tender years a lover knew , Who seem'd devoid of guile , With heart , as bland as morning dew , Estrang'd from every wile : And oft they wander'd down the maze ,, Where flow'ry nature spread , And oft they shrunk from idle gaze , Within ...
... tender years a lover knew , Who seem'd devoid of guile , With heart , as bland as morning dew , Estrang'd from every wile : And oft they wander'd down the maze ,, Where flow'ry nature spread , And oft they shrunk from idle gaze , Within ...
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... Tender as the woodland dove ; Milder than the ev'ning ray , Lovely as the purest love : Comfort - bearing , soul - delighting , Kind in care and sweet in woe ; Than the morning , more inviting , To the soul that's humbled low : Like the ...
... Tender as the woodland dove ; Milder than the ev'ning ray , Lovely as the purest love : Comfort - bearing , soul - delighting , Kind in care and sweet in woe ; Than the morning , more inviting , To the soul that's humbled low : Like the ...
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... tender blade And says ' tis May . The garden smiles with various flowr's , Gay mantling round its shading bow'rs , Prepar❜d for summer's noontide hours ; All say ' tis May . See yonder cloud in waves descending , Softly amidst the ...
... tender blade And says ' tis May . The garden smiles with various flowr's , Gay mantling round its shading bow'rs , Prepar❜d for summer's noontide hours ; All say ' tis May . See yonder cloud in waves descending , Softly amidst the ...
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... tender mind , Impressions best for good design'd ; That they might happy sail along Amid the various feather'd throng , And sing harmoniously the while , Shunning those dangers that beguile So many from the happy course , By dint of ...
... tender mind , Impressions best for good design'd ; That they might happy sail along Amid the various feather'd throng , And sing harmoniously the while , Shunning those dangers that beguile So many from the happy course , By dint of ...
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... tender as doves : Darker than midnight and bitter it proves : * The Bohan Upas , a tree known ( at least in fable ) for slaying every animal that comes within a short distance of it . Lovely as summer and smiling as spring : Rougher ...
... tender as doves : Darker than midnight and bitter it proves : * The Bohan Upas , a tree known ( at least in fable ) for slaying every animal that comes within a short distance of it . Lovely as summer and smiling as spring : Rougher ...
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azure balm band beam beauteous blessings bliss bosom breath breeze bright Cæsar celestial Chaos cherub Comet dar'd dark dear death delight dire dwells earth ev'ning fear float flow flow'd give glide glorious glory glow golden bowl Greenlanders grove Halleluiahs happy happy band harp haste heart Heav'nly Heaven hope horror hung hydra Jehovah JESUS joys of social Lansingburgh light mercy mild mind monster morning mortal murmur nigh night o'er OSANDER pain pass'd passion peace pleasure pow'r praise pray'r pure rais'd rapture rich rill rise roll round rove SAMUEL BLATCHFORD Satan Saviour scene seem'd seraph shed shine sing skies smile soft softly song soon soul storm sweet sweetly swell syren tear tempests tender thee thou thought thro throne treasure trembling twas Twill shew vile vision wander'd Warbling wave youth zephyrs
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Page 30 - Lost in clouds, in tempests tost,'" Anxious hopes some friendly coast, Which shall calm and shelter give, Where he peacefully may live : But the coast that I have found, Is not common eartlily ground ; His is mortal, mine's eternal, His is barren, mine is Heaven?
Page 124 - Perchanc'd against a rock to bounce With force as if with sudden pounce He'd lighted on a timid hare That fleetly wing'd the nether air. Quick rising up, the sudden blow...
Page 15 - tis the ruler of the hosts on high : Some trivial exercise of power divine, For purposes — to him best known — but wise, For wisdom is the daughter of Divinity.
Page 36 - O'ER fields of green the flocks are spread, The oak extends its sylvan shade, The root puts forth its tender blade And says 'tis May.
Page 175 - The bee collecting honied wine ; And with a friend, whose every sigh Is wing'd for Heaven, low to lie Where we may with JESUS meet — Oh ! is not this divinely sweet ? XLJII.
Page 15 - See it blackens ! Clouds roll in dark magnificence, And Gothick grandeur mounts— — As if some spirit, from the nether dell Of Chaos, having torn the volving fragments...
Page 144 - OH see those fair celestial heights, How bright they shine, how glorious glow, They shine, oh ye who act aright, They glow, oh Christians, but for you ! OJV SEEING A PJSSWG VESSEL.
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