Poems,: In Two Volumes,, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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affections none find Anchorite Ardres Art thou aught which doth beauty beneath Better plea Love Bird blooms a deathless bowers bright CALAIS calm chaste hearts uninfluenced chearful Child clouds Creature Dear Divinity to thee drest EGREMONT CASTLE eyes fair fancy fear felt her destiny France glittering Glow-worm grace In sight grief ground happy heard heart to aught heav'n-ward course hope is treacherous Horn Hubert imparts As hallows ITALIAN OF MICHAEL lend His heart Liberty loving thee Glory mighty mighty heart mountain mournfully never Peace is paid pleas'd praise pure all gentle RIVER DUDDON sate seem'd SEVEN SISTERS sight of Proteus Sing Sir Eustace Sleep Solitude of Binnorie Soul a heav'n-ward sound Spirit Star strong desire keep sweet things Thou art thought unbetray'd utter'd Vale VENETIAN REPUBLIC Venice vex'd WESTMINSTER BRIDGE wind winter hours world She soars Ye Men youth
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Page 73 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 121 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 70 - I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. Tis past, that melancholy dream! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more.
Page 138 - Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 36 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 75 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Page 103 - Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room, And hermits are contented with their cells, And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells; In truth the prison unto which we doom Ourselves no prison is...
Page 25 - Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine. Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star; Up and down the heavens they go, Men that keep a mighty rout! I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, Little Flower! — I'll make a stir, Like a sage astronomer.
Page 37 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: — He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; 60 Sweet images!
Page 34 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...