Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems, Issue 2G. & C. Carvill, 1827 - 64 pages |
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... harps in air On the willow boughs , which there , Gloomy as round a sepulchre , were drooping o'er the stream . The foes , whose chain we wore , Were with us on that shore , Exulting in our tears ... harp of heaven To Judah's monarch given.
... harps in air On the willow boughs , which there , Gloomy as round a sepulchre , were drooping o'er the stream . The foes , whose chain we wore , Were with us on that shore , Exulting in our tears ... harp of heaven To Judah's monarch given.
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... harp at will , And bid the listeners joys or griefs in light or darkness come , Forget its godlike power , If for one brief , dark hour , My heart forgets Jerusalem , fallen city of my home ! Daughter of Babylon ! Blest be that chosen ...
... harp at will , And bid the listeners joys or griefs in light or darkness come , Forget its godlike power , If for one brief , dark hour , My heart forgets Jerusalem , fallen city of my home ! Daughter of Babylon ! Blest be that chosen ...
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... harp's song , and watching by The wild - thyme pillow of her sleeping queen , When proud Titania shuns her Oberon . But ' twas that foot which broke the spell — alas ! Its stocking had a deep , deep tinge of blue , — I turned away in ...
... harp's song , and watching by The wild - thyme pillow of her sleeping queen , When proud Titania shuns her Oberon . But ' twas that foot which broke the spell — alas ! Its stocking had a deep , deep tinge of blue , — I turned away in ...
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... harp , and wake its harmonies divine , Seems sweetest - voiced and loveliest of the Nine , The minstrel of the bowers of happiness . She whom the Graces nurtured - at her birth , The sea - born Goddess , and the Huntress maid , Beings ...
... harp , and wake its harmonies divine , Seems sweetest - voiced and loveliest of the Nine , The minstrel of the bowers of happiness . She whom the Graces nurtured - at her birth , The sea - born Goddess , and the Huntress maid , Beings ...
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... HARP . SWEET boy ! before thy lips can learn In speech thy wishes to make known , Are " thoughts that breathe and words that burn " Heard in thy music's tone . Were Genius tasked to prove the might , The magic of her hidden spell , She ...
... HARP . SWEET boy ! before thy lips can learn In speech thy wishes to make known , Are " thoughts that breathe and words that burn " Heard in thy music's tone . Were Genius tasked to prove the might , The magic of her hidden spell , She ...
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Alike to smile ALNWICK ALNWICK CASTLE autumn AYRE baby fingers Wake Babylon beauty beneath the sky bird bird of night blue born born to die boughs Bozzaris brave breath bright brow CASTLE cheek clouds curls dark death early power fame feet Are strangers fingers Wake sounds fire-fly's flight funeral gaze grave Greece green hair harp hath heard heaven heaven's own harmony infancy and song joy or grief King George land Lexington life's young purity lingers Upon thy listened lost friends wakened lovelier Magdalen maiden mark its dimpled memory minstrel Music as thine NEW-YORK o'er Palestine Percys POEMS Poet's proud shade sings sleep star-light hours strangers on Life's summer flowers sunbeam sunny sweet boy tears thou art thy baby fingers tomb tree Trod truth Turk twilight unheeded long wandering warm WILD ROSE win us Alike wing WYOMING
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Page 12 - They fought like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered; but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won, Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly as to a night's repose— Like flowers at set of sun.
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Page 29 - GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Page 30 - Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts whose truth was proven, Like thine are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth. And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and woe were thine — It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I 've in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot...
Page 22 - ... high, . , That could not fear, and would not bow, Were written in his manly eye, And on his manly brow. Praise to the bard ! — his words are driven, Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown, Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven, The birds of fame have flown.
Page 15 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow ; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys, Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh : For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names,...
Page 4 - Above his princely towers. A gentle hill its side inclines, Lovely in England's fadeless green, To meet the quiet stream which winds Through this romantic scene As silently and sweetly still, As when, at evening, on that hill, While summer's wind blew soft and low, Seated by gallant Hotspur's side, His Katherine was a happy bride, A thousand years ago.
Page 18 - Ascendency o'er rank and birth, The rich, the brave, the strong; ;« And if despondency weigh down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions then, Despair — thy name is written on The roll of common men.
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Page 14 - Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh 14 MARCO BOZZARIS.