The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 36Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1822 |
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Page 47
... lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of every ...
... lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of every ...
Page 53
... lyre in such a careless mood , And so disdain'd the rules he understood , The laurel seem'd to wait on his command ; He snatch'd it rudely from the muses ' hand . Nature , exerting an unwearied pow'r , Forms , opens , and gives scent to ...
... lyre in such a careless mood , And so disdain'd the rules he understood , The laurel seem'd to wait on his command ; He snatch'd it rudely from the muses ' hand . Nature , exerting an unwearied pow'r , Forms , opens , and gives scent to ...
Page 55
... lyre , And tell the world , still kindling as he sung , With more than mortal music on his tongue , That He , who died below , and reigns above , Inspires the song , and that his name is Love . For , after all , if merely to beguile ...
... lyre , And tell the world , still kindling as he sung , With more than mortal music on his tongue , That He , who died below , and reigns above , Inspires the song , and that his name is Love . For , after all , if merely to beguile ...
Page 55
... lyre in such a careless mood , And so disdain'd the rules he understood , The laurel seem'd to wait on his command ; He snatch'd it rudely from the muses ' hand . Nature , exerting an unwearied pow'r , Forms , opens , and gives scent to ...
... lyre in such a careless mood , And so disdain'd the rules he understood , The laurel seem'd to wait on his command ; He snatch'd it rudely from the muses ' hand . Nature , exerting an unwearied pow'r , Forms , opens , and gives scent to ...
Page 55
... lyre , And tell the world , still kindling as he sung , With more than mortal music on his tongue , That He , who died below , and reigns above , Inspires the song , and that his name is Love . For , after all , if merely to beguile ...
... lyre , And tell the world , still kindling as he sung , With more than mortal music on his tongue , That He , who died below , and reigns above , Inspires the song , and that his name is Love . For , after all , if merely to beguile ...
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