The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber, and PollokJ. Grigg, 1833 - 470 pages |
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... Twas hard from those I loved to go , Who knelt around my bed , Whose tears bedewed my burning brow , Whose arms upheld my head ! As fading from my dizzy view , I sought their forms in vain , The bitterness of death I knew , And groaned ...
... Twas hard from those I loved to go , Who knelt around my bed , Whose tears bedewed my burning brow , Whose arms upheld my head ! As fading from my dizzy view , I sought their forms in vain , The bitterness of death I knew , And groaned ...
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... Twas this dug hell , and kindled all its bounds With wrath and inextinguishable fire . Free was the offer , free to all , of life And of salvation ; but the proud of heart , Because ' twas free , would not accept ; and still To merit ...
... Twas this dug hell , and kindled all its bounds With wrath and inextinguishable fire . Free was the offer , free to all , of life And of salvation ; but the proud of heart , Because ' twas free , would not accept ; and still To merit ...
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... twas a reed or oak ; Stepped on , but never earnestly inquired Whether to heaven or hell the journey led , Devoured its tens of thousands , and its hands Made reddest in the precious blood of souls . In Time's pursuits men ran till out ...
... twas a reed or oak ; Stepped on , but never earnestly inquired Whether to heaven or hell the journey led , Devoured its tens of thousands , and its hands Made reddest in the precious blood of souls . In Time's pursuits men ran till out ...
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... twas sweet , And promised well : but , in the belly gall . Yet after him that cried again , Ho ! here's The tree of life ! again they ran , and pulled , And chewed again , and found it bitter still . From disappointment on to ...
... twas sweet , And promised well : but , in the belly gall . Yet after him that cried again , Ho ! here's The tree of life ! again they ran , and pulled , And chewed again , and found it bitter still . From disappointment on to ...
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... Twas cold , and dead , impenetrable gloom . He saw its dark approach , and saw his hopes , One after one , put out , as nearer still It drew his soul ; but fainted not at first , Fainted not soon . He knew the lot of man Was trouble ...
... Twas cold , and dead , impenetrable gloom . He saw its dark approach , and saw his hopes , One after one , put out , as nearer still It drew his soul ; but fainted not at first , Fainted not soon . He knew the lot of man Was trouble ...
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Page 280 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form.
Page 11 - Lo ! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God.
Page 271 - O'er each fair sleeping brow ; She had each folded flower in sight, — Where are those dreamers now ? One, 'midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream is laid, — The Indian knows his place of rest, Far in the cedar shade.
Page 11 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! <#irst Sunbag after %ip|rang.— No.
Page 11 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 280 - Say, Father, say, If yet my task is done!" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. "Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!
Page 2 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 10 - The martyr first, whose eagle eye Could pierce beyond the grave, Who saw his Master in the sky, And called on Him to save. Like Him, with pardon on His tongue, In midst of mortal pain, He prayed for them that did the wrong; Who follows in His train?
Page 21 - Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Page 264 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.