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... Blind Thamyris and blind Moonides , And Tiresias and Phineus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts , that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sing darkling , and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note .
... Blind Thamyris and blind Moonides , And Tiresias and Phineus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts , that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sing darkling , and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note .
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Page 266 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 286 - He added not, and from her turn'd ; but Eve, Not so repuls'd, with tears that ceas'd not flowing, And tresses all disorder'd, at his feet Fell humble ; and, embracing them, besought His peace, and thus proceeded in her plaint. Forsake me not thus, Adam ! witness Heaven...
Page 266 - Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 288 - Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress...
Page 266 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Page 265 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 287 - My only strength and stay : Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace...
Page 266 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 287 - Against God only, I against God and thee, And to the place of judgment will return, There with my cries importune Heaven, that all The sentence, from thy head removed, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe,. Me, me only, just object of his ire!
Page 312 - L'évangile à l'esprit n'offre de tous côtés Que pénitence à faire et tourments mérités; Et de vos fictions le mélange coupable Même à ses vérités donne l'air de la fable.
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| Title | Œuvres de M.A. Jay ... Volume 3 of Œuvres de M.A. Jay, Antoine Jay |
| Author | Antoine Jay |
| Publisher | Sauvaignat, 1839 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Nov 11, 2005 |
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