Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 2Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 |
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... Colonsay ; Scenes sung by him who sings no more , His bright and brief career is o'er , And mute his tuneful strains ; Quenched is his lamp of varied lore , That loved the light of song to pour : A distant and a deadly shore Has ...
... Colonsay ; Scenes sung by him who sings no more , His bright and brief career is o'er , And mute his tuneful strains ; Quenched is his lamp of varied lore , That loved the light of song to pour : A distant and a deadly shore Has ...
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... Colonsay . Aloft the purple pennons wave , As , parting gay from Crinan's shore , From Morven's wars , the seamen brave Their gallant chieftain homeward bore . In youth's gay bloom , the brave Macphail Still blamed the lingering bark's ...
... Colonsay . Aloft the purple pennons wave , As , parting gay from Crinan's shore , From Morven's wars , the seamen brave Their gallant chieftain homeward bore . In youth's gay bloom , the brave Macphail Still blamed the lingering bark's ...
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... Colonsay ? ' Roused by that voice of silver sound , From the paved floor he lightly sprung , And glancing wild his eyes around Where the fair nymph her tresses wrung , No form he saw of mortal mould ; It shone like ocean's snowy foam ...
... Colonsay ? ' Roused by that voice of silver sound , From the paved floor he lightly sprung , And glancing wild his eyes around Where the fair nymph her tresses wrung , No form he saw of mortal mould ; It shone like ocean's snowy foam ...
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... Colonsay . Proud swells her heart ! she deems at last To lure him with her silver tongue , And , as the shelving rocks she passed , She raised her voice , and sweetly sung . In softer , sweeter strains she sung , Siow gliding o'er the ...
... Colonsay . Proud swells her heart ! she deems at last To lure him with her silver tongue , And , as the shelving rocks she passed , She raised her voice , and sweetly sung . In softer , sweeter strains she sung , Siow gliding o'er the ...
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