The Poetical Works of William FalconerW. Pickering, 1836 - 236 pages |
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... love , and far from death his prey Bear o'er the charmèd billow . - Ah ! in vain , Tuneful Arion ! is thy dying lay Along the silver waters heard again . Benhall , June 1 , 1836 . J. MITFORD . THE LIFE OF WILLIAM FALCONER , BY THE REV .
... love , and far from death his prey Bear o'er the charmèd billow . - Ah ! in vain , Tuneful Arion ! is thy dying lay Along the silver waters heard again . Benhall , June 1 , 1836 . J. MITFORD . THE LIFE OF WILLIAM FALCONER , BY THE REV .
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... vain for rude adversity's command Still on the margin of each famous land , With unrelenting ire his steps opposed , And every gate of hope against him closed . Permit my verse , ye blest Pierian train ! To call Arion this ill - fated ...
... vain for rude adversity's command Still on the margin of each famous land , With unrelenting ire his steps opposed , And every gate of hope against him closed . Permit my verse , ye blest Pierian train ! To call Arion this ill - fated ...
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... vain : These eyes have seen the dull reluctant soil A seventh year mock the weary labourer's toil.— No blooming Venus , on the desert shore , Now views with triumph captive gods adore ; No lovely Helens now with fatal charms Excite the ...
... vain : These eyes have seen the dull reluctant soil A seventh year mock the weary labourer's toil.— No blooming Venus , on the desert shore , Now views with triumph captive gods adore ; No lovely Helens now with fatal charms Excite the ...
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... vain sad merit pleads her cause ; This strews with roses life's perplexing road , And leads the way to pleasure's soft abode ; This spreads with slaughter'd heaps the bloody plain , And pours adventurous thousands o'er the main . II ...
... vain sad merit pleads her cause ; This strews with roses life's perplexing road , And leads the way to pleasure's soft abode ; This spreads with slaughter'd heaps the bloody plain , And pours adventurous thousands o'er the main . II ...
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... vain - for rude adversity's command Still on the margin of each famous land , With unrelenting ire his steps opposed , And every gate of hope against him closed . Permit my verse , ye blest Pierian train ! To call Arion this ill - fated ...
... vain - for rude adversity's command Still on the margin of each famous land , With unrelenting ire his steps opposed , And every gate of hope against him closed . Permit my verse , ye blest Pierian train ! To call Arion this ill - fated ...
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Æneid Albert anguish Arion arms beauty beneath bids billows blast bloom bosom braces brails breast breath Candia CANTO charms clouds confest crew danger death deck deep distress doom'd dreadful eternal eventful song eyes faithless Falconer Falconer's fame fatal fate flame flies fore-mast gale GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE glow Greece groan halyards heart Hellespont helm hope horrors hour JOHN MITFORD kindling leeward light lines mast melt mizen mournful muse numbers o'er pain Palemon plain poem poet poetical prow racter rage reef Retimo roar Rodmond roll ropes round ruin sacred sailors sails scene scud seamen second edition shade ship Shipwreck shore side skies smile soft song soul stay-sail stern storm strain straits of Sicily surge sweet swell tale tempest thee third edition thou thunder tide toil top-mast trembling vessel voice vols wave weep WILLIAM FALCONER wind wretch yards youth
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Page 130 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 130 - That, with the hurly, death itself awakes? Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude. And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, • Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down ! 30 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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Page 120 - Palemon rescued from the wreck ; Take it, and say, when panting in the wave, I struggled life and this alone to save ! — " My soul, that fluttering hastens to be free, Would yet a train of thoughts impart to thee...
Page 90 - While, dashed apart by her dividing prow, Like burning adamant the waters glow; Her joints forget their firm elastic tone, Her long keel trembles, and her timbers groan : Upheaved behind her in tremendous height The billows frown, with fearful radiance bright; Now quivering o'er the topmost wave she rides, While deep beneath th...
Page 32 - The' impatient wish that never feels repose, Desire that with perpetual current flows, The fluctuating pangs of hope and fear, Joy distant still, and sorrow ever near. Thus, while the pangs of thought severer grew, The western breezes inauspicious blew, Hastening the moment of our last adieu.
Page 115 - Alas ! these rocks all human skill defy; Who strikes them once, beyond relief must die : And now sore wounded, thou perhaps art tost On these, or in some oozy cavern lost...
Page 54 - Olympus' throne; For oft, alas ! their venal Strains adorn The Prince, whom blushing Virtue holds in scorn : Still ROME and GREECE record his endless fame, And hence yon mountain yet retains his name.
Page xxv - Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me, What land I was to travel in, Or what death I should die...