Miscellanies: Occasional pieces, 1807-1824J. Murray, 1837 |
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... fires- As many a boy and girl remembers While every hope of love expires , Extinguish'd with the dying embers . The first , though not a spark survive , Some careful hand may teach to burn ; The last , alas ! can ne'er survive ; No ...
... fires- As many a boy and girl remembers While every hope of love expires , Extinguish'd with the dying embers . The first , though not a spark survive , Some careful hand may teach to burn ; The last , alas ! can ne'er survive ; No ...
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... fires ! Untouch'd , then , my Lyre shall reply to the blast - ' Tis hush'd ; and my feeble endeavours are o'er ; And those who have heard it will pardon the past , When they know that its murmurs shall vibrate no more . And soon shall ...
... fires ! Untouch'd , then , my Lyre shall reply to the blast - ' Tis hush'd ; and my feeble endeavours are o'er ; And those who have heard it will pardon the past , When they know that its murmurs shall vibrate no more . And soon shall ...
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... fire ; And , wert thou still less dear to me , While Helen's form revives in thee , The breast , which beat to former joy , Will ne'er desert its pledge , my Boy ! 1807. [ First published 1830. ] FAREWELL ! IF EVER FONDEST PRAYER ...
... fire ; And , wert thou still less dear to me , While Helen's form revives in thee , The breast , which beat to former joy , Will ne'er desert its pledge , my Boy ! 1807. [ First published 1830. ] FAREWELL ! IF EVER FONDEST PRAYER ...
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... fires the maddening soul , The heart the heart is lonely still ! On many a lone and lovely night It sooth'd to gaze upon the sky ; For then I deem'd the heavenly light Shone sweetly on thy pensive eye : And oft I thought at Cynthia's ...
... fires the maddening soul , The heart the heart is lonely still ! On many a lone and lovely night It sooth'd to gaze upon the sky ; For then I deem'd the heavenly light Shone sweetly on thy pensive eye : And oft I thought at Cynthia's ...
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... fire the massy fragments riven , Like Israel's pillar , chase the night from heaven ; Saw the long column of revolving flames Shake its red shadow o'er the startled Thames , ? [ The theatre in Drury Lane , which was opened , in 1747 ...
... fire the massy fragments riven , Like Israel's pillar , chase the night from heaven ; Saw the long column of revolving flames Shake its red shadow o'er the startled Thames , ? [ The theatre in Drury Lane , which was opened , in 1747 ...
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Page 170 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 22 - If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? — With silence and tears.
Page 260 - The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece, around me see! The Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free. Awake! (not Greece — she is awake!) Awake, my spirit! Think through whom Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake. And then strike home!
Page 240 - Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto. Per più fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso : Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso. La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante : Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse : Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante..
Page 176 - Thy godlike crime was to be kind. To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness. And strengthen Man with his own mind ; But baffled as thou wert from high. Still in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse, A mighty lesson we inherit...
Page 136 - FARE thee well ! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Would that breast were bared before thee Where thy head so oft hath lain While that placid sleep came o'er thee Which thou ne'er canst know again : Would that breast, by thee glanced over, Every inmost thought could show ! Then thou would'st at last discover 'Twas not well to spurn it so. Though the world for this commend thee — Though it smile upon the blow, Even...
Page 161 - Opera), the best farce (the Critic— it is only too good for a farce), and the best Address (Monologue on Garrick), and, to crown all, delivered the very best Oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country.
Page 144 - Though the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find ; Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted, It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee.
Page 260 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Page 163 - Not by the sport of nature, but of man : These two, a maiden and a youth, were there Gazing — the one on all that was beneath Fair as herself— but the boy gazed on her ; And both were young, and one was beautiful : And both were young — yet not alike in youth. As the sweet moon on the horizon's verge, The maid was on the eve of womanhood...