The British Poets, Volume 4Little, Brown & Company, 1865 |
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... Heaven's breathing influence failed not to bestow A timely promise of unlooked - for fruit , Fair fruit of pleasure and serene content From blossoms wild of fancies innocent . It soothed us , it beguiled us , then , to hear Once more of ...
... Heaven's breathing influence failed not to bestow A timely promise of unlooked - for fruit , Fair fruit of pleasure and serene content From blossoms wild of fancies innocent . It soothed us , it beguiled us , then , to hear Once more of ...
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... heaven ; Or like a ship some gentle day In sunshine sailing far away , A glittering ship , that hath the plain Of ocean for her own domain . Lie silent in your graves , ye dead ! Lie quiet in your churchyard bed ! Ye living , tend your ...
... heaven ; Or like a ship some gentle day In sunshine sailing far away , A glittering ship , that hath the plain Of ocean for her own domain . Lie silent in your graves , ye dead ! Lie quiet in your churchyard bed ! Ye living , tend your ...
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... heaven . What harmonious pensive changes Wait upon her as she ranges Round and through this Pile of state Overthrown and desolate ! Now a step or two her way Leads through space of open day , Where the enamored sunny light Brightens her ...
... heaven . What harmonious pensive changes Wait upon her as she ranges Round and through this Pile of state Overthrown and desolate ! Now a step or two her way Leads through space of open day , Where the enamored sunny light Brightens her ...
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... heaven , The stifled sigh , the hidden tear , - And smiles , that dared to take their place , Meek filial smiles , upon thy face , As that unhallowed Banner grew Beneath a loving old Man's view . Thy part is done , - thy painful part ...
... heaven , The stifled sigh , the hidden tear , - And smiles , that dared to take their place , Meek filial smiles , upon thy face , As that unhallowed Banner grew Beneath a loving old Man's view . Thy part is done , - thy painful part ...
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... Heaven , of life that never dies ; For the old and holy Church we mourn , And must in joy to her return . Behold ! " and from his Son whose stand Was on his right , from that guardian hand He took the Banner , and unfurled The precious ...
... Heaven , of life that never dies ; For the old and holy Church we mourn , And must in joy to her return . Behold ! " and from his Son whose stand Was on his right , from that guardian hand He took the Banner , and unfurled The precious ...
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Page 256 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 268 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 231 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 271 - Tis, finally, the Man who lifted high, Conspicuous obj'ect in a Nation's eye, Or left unthought-of in obscurity, — Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not — Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won...
Page 245 - He is retired- as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 256 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Page 249 - was well begun ; Then, from thy breast what thought, Beneath so beautiful a sun, So sad a sigh has brought...
Page 233 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings ; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things : — We murder to dissect.
Page 233 - LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING. I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths ; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
Page 270 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire: Who comprehends his trust, and to the same, Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim ; And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait For wealth, or honours, or for worldly state ; Whom they must follow: on whose head must fall, Like showers of manna, if they come at all...