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... heart Beats thick his roomy chest by far too scant To give the lungs full play ! What now avail The strong - built sinewy limbs and well - spread shoulders ? See , how he tugs for life , and lays about him , Mad with his pain ! Eager he ...
... heart Beats thick his roomy chest by far too scant To give the lungs full play ! What now avail The strong - built sinewy limbs and well - spread shoulders ? See , how he tugs for life , and lays about him , Mad with his pain ! Eager he ...
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... heart denies him half his praise . With nakedness his innocence agrees , While their broad foliage testifies their ... hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded , like the wounded air , Soon close ; where past the shaft no trace ...
... heart denies him half his praise . With nakedness his innocence agrees , While their broad foliage testifies their ... hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded , like the wounded air , Soon close ; where past the shaft no trace ...
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... heart own a gleaner in the field : And thus in secret to his soul he sighed : ' What pity ! that so delicate a form , By beauty kindled , where enlivening sense And more than vulgar goodness seem to dwell , Should be devoted to the rude ...
... heart own a gleaner in the field : And thus in secret to his soul he sighed : ' What pity ! that so delicate a form , By beauty kindled , where enlivening sense And more than vulgar goodness seem to dwell , Should be devoted to the rude ...
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... heart , and hard beset By death in various forms , dark snares and dogs , And more unpitying men , the garden seeks , Urged on by fearless want . The bleating kine Eye the bleak heaven , and next , the glistening earth , With looks of ...
... heart , and hard beset By death in various forms , dark snares and dogs , And more unpitying men , the garden seeks , Urged on by fearless want . The bleating kine Eye the bleak heaven , and next , the glistening earth , With looks of ...
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... heart , As home he goes beneath the joyous moon . Ye that keep watch in heaven , as earth asleep Unconscious lies , effuse your mildest beams ; Ye constellations , while your angels strike , Amid the spangled sky , the silver lyre ...
... heart , As home he goes beneath the joyous moon . Ye that keep watch in heaven , as earth asleep Unconscious lies , effuse your mildest beams ; Ye constellations , while your angels strike , Amid the spangled sky , the silver lyre ...
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Page 410 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 32 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY.
Page 398 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 327 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 56 - Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 340 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 219 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 406 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket...
Page 327 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
Page 406 - Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, — Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath, — Now more than ever seems it rich to die ; To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.