The British Poets, Volume 3Little, Brown & Company, 1865 |
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... beams aspire , The lambent billows play in forms of fire . Where is the Vessel ? - Shining through the light , Like the white sea - fowl's horizontal flight , Yonder she wings , and skims , and cleaves her way Through refluent foam and ...
... beams aspire , The lambent billows play in forms of fire . Where is the Vessel ? - Shining through the light , Like the white sea - fowl's horizontal flight , Yonder she wings , and skims , and cleaves her way Through refluent foam and ...
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... beam'd ; While hymning voices , in the silent shade , Music of all his soul's affections made ; Where through the trackless wilderness erewhile , No hospitable ray was known to smile ; Or if a sudden splendor kindled joy , " T was but a ...
... beam'd ; While hymning voices , in the silent shade , Music of all his soul's affections made ; Where through the trackless wilderness erewhile , No hospitable ray was known to smile ; Or if a sudden splendor kindled joy , " T was but a ...
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... beam : Thus would thy race , beneath their parent's eye , Live without knowledge , without prospect die . But when religion bids her spirit breathe , And opens bliss above and woe beneath ; When God reveals his march through Nature's ...
... beam : Thus would thy race , beneath their parent's eye , Live without knowledge , without prospect die . But when religion bids her spirit breathe , And opens bliss above and woe beneath ; When God reveals his march through Nature's ...
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... beams the reconciling bow ; ( Signal of peace , whose radiant girdle binds , Till nature's doom , the waters and the winds ; ) While mist and spray , condensed to sudden dews , The air illumine with celestial hues , As if the bounteous ...
... beams the reconciling bow ; ( Signal of peace , whose radiant girdle binds , Till nature's doom , the waters and the winds ; ) While mist and spray , condensed to sudden dews , The air illumine with celestial hues , As if the bounteous ...
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... beams between These hideous arches , and light up the scene ; At the sweet touch of his transforming rays With amber lustre all the columns blaze , And the thick folds of cumbrous fog aloof Change to rich drapery of celestial woof ...
... beams between These hideous arches , and light up the scene ; At the sweet touch of his transforming rays With amber lustre all the columns blaze , And the thick folds of cumbrous fog aloof Change to rich drapery of celestial woof ...
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age to age amidst arms beams beauty behold beneath beneath the sky birth bliss blood Bohemia breast breath Brethren canto Christian David Church clime clouds Comenius Count Zinzendorf cried dark dead death deep dreams earth eternal Falkland Farinata fear fire fix'd flame fled flood flowers gaze gloom glory Greenland gulf hand hath heart heaven Herrnhut hope hour Iceland John Huss kayak kraken land light living living wall look'd Lord Monte Aperto moon morn mother Mother's Love mountains Nature's never night Norwegian o'er ocean pass'd peace prayer pulse reindeer rest rocks round sail scene seem'd shade shadow shine shore sigh sight silent sleep smile snow soul sound spirit spread star star by star stood storm strange stream sweet tears tempest thee thine thou thought throne tide tomb turn'd vanish'd vessel voice wake waves wild wind wings youth
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Page 244 - When there was any overture, or hope of peace, he would be more erect and vigorous, and exceedingly solicitous to press any thing which he thought might promote it; and sitting among his friends, often, after a deep silence and frequent sighs, would, with a shrill and sad accent, ingeminate the word peace, peace...
Page 154 - The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky...
Page 127 - SERVANT of God, well done ! Rest from thy loved employ ; The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Master's joy.
Page 257 - MAKE way for Liberty!"— he cried; Made way for Liberty, and died ! In arms the Austrian phalanx stood, A living wall, a human wood ! A wall, where every conscious stone Seemed to its kindred thousands grown ; A rampart all assaults to bear, Till time to dust their frames should wear ; A wood, like that...
Page 108 - A MOTHER'S Love, — how sweet the name ! What t» a Mother's love ? — A noble, pure, and tender flame, Enkindled from above, To bless a heart of earthly mould ; The warmest love that can grow cold ; This is a Mother's Love.
Page 216 - tis death to-morrow, And to-day the agony between : Then how longs the weary soul for thee, Bright and beautiful eternity ! ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTH. I Ire HER, higher will we climb Up the mount of glory, That our names may live through time In our country's story ; Happy, when her welfare calls, He who conquers, he who falls.
Page 326 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 259 - Point for assault was nowhere found ; Where'er the impatient Switzers gazed, The unbroken line of lances blazed ; That line 'twere suicide to meet, And perish at their tyrants
Page 124 - One humble path, that never bends, Narrow, and rough, and steep, ascends From darkness into light. Is there a Guide to show that path ? The Bible: — He alone, who hath The Bible, need not stray : Yet he who hath, and will not give That heavenly Guide to all that live, Himself shall lose the way.
Page 244 - ... only incurious, but too negligent ; and in his reception of suitors, and the necessary or casual addresses to his place, so quick and sharp and severe that there wanted not some men (strangers to his nature and disposition) who believed him proud and imperious, from which no mortal man was ever more free.