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... bright , the pearly eye of day . Teach my soul , on early wing , Thus to soar , and thus to sing ; While the rays of dawning light Gild thee in thy tuneful flight . May the day - spring , from on high , Seen by faith's religious eye ...
... bright , the pearly eye of day . Teach my soul , on early wing , Thus to soar , and thus to sing ; While the rays of dawning light Gild thee in thy tuneful flight . May the day - spring , from on high , Seen by faith's religious eye ...
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... BRIGHT stranger , welcome to my field ; Here feed in safety , here thy radiance yield ; To me , oh , nightly , be thy splendour giv'n . Oh ! could a wish of mine the skies command , How would I gem thy leaf , with lib'ral hand , With ...
... BRIGHT stranger , welcome to my field ; Here feed in safety , here thy radiance yield ; To me , oh , nightly , be thy splendour giv'n . Oh ! could a wish of mine the skies command , How would I gem thy leaf , with lib'ral hand , With ...
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... bright king - fisher hides , The willow - herb in crimson drest , Waves with Arundo , o'er the tides ; And there the sweet Nymphea loves to lave , Or spread her golden orbs upon the dimpling wave . And thou , by pain and sorrow blest ...
... bright king - fisher hides , The willow - herb in crimson drest , Waves with Arundo , o'er the tides ; And there the sweet Nymphea loves to lave , Or spread her golden orbs upon the dimpling wave . And thou , by pain and sorrow blest ...
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... bright , Take , at large , thy wandering flight ; Go , and load thy hairy feet With every rich and varied sweet . Cling around the flowering thorn ; Pierce the woodbine's honied horn ; Seek the wild rose in the dell ; Explore the fox ...
... bright , Take , at large , thy wandering flight ; Go , and load thy hairy feet With every rich and varied sweet . Cling around the flowering thorn ; Pierce the woodbine's honied horn ; Seek the wild rose in the dell ; Explore the fox ...
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... bright extending beam , And strikes , with lurid ray , his dazzled sight ; Nor perfumed leaf , nor honied flower , To check his wild career , has power , But to the attracting flame , he takes his rapid flight . Round it he darts in ...
... bright extending beam , And strikes , with lurid ray , his dazzled sight ; Nor perfumed leaf , nor honied flower , To check his wild career , has power , But to the attracting flame , he takes his rapid flight . Round it he darts in ...
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Popular passages
Page 82 - Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven; On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 142 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 186 - THOU art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee : Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine.
Page 105 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
Page 143 - Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers...
Page xii - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 92 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise His works behold, Both day and night.
Page 174 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 81 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure— Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Page 97 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.