The Votive Wreath, and Other PoemsBulcock, 1826 - 158 pages |
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... hour ; And not a shrub beside it grew , Save the dark shadowing baneful yew . Oh ! not from them the chaplet twine ! Weave it of amaranth divine : Unfading wreaths alone should wave O'er Friendship's altar - Friendship's grave . But I ...
... hour ; And not a shrub beside it grew , Save the dark shadowing baneful yew . Oh ! not from them the chaplet twine ! Weave it of amaranth divine : Unfading wreaths alone should wave O'er Friendship's altar - Friendship's grave . But I ...
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... hours ; Satiety and loathing will succeed ; And those voluptuous pleasures , once so dear , Pall on his vapid taste . What follows then ? ' Tis then he feels , but feels alas too late , His soul was form'd for happiness refined ; But he ...
... hours ; Satiety and loathing will succeed ; And those voluptuous pleasures , once so dear , Pall on his vapid taste . What follows then ? ' Tis then he feels , but feels alas too late , His soul was form'd for happiness refined ; But he ...
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... hour must soon arrive When mirth shall yield to care . Youth is the season made for joy . While to the future blind : And chasten'd mirth can never cloy , Nor leave a sting behind . Laugh then and still enjoy each hour ; Each guiltless hour ...
... hour must soon arrive When mirth shall yield to care . Youth is the season made for joy . While to the future blind : And chasten'd mirth can never cloy , Nor leave a sting behind . Laugh then and still enjoy each hour ; Each guiltless hour ...
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... hour . That hour arrives ; and he , supreme command And princely rule , maintains o'er Egypt's land ; For he had saved that land ; or rather He , Whose eye can penetrate futurity , Had sent him as a messenger of love , His ever watchful ...
... hour . That hour arrives ; and he , supreme command And princely rule , maintains o'er Egypt's land ; For he had saved that land ; or rather He , Whose eye can penetrate futurity , Had sent him as a messenger of love , His ever watchful ...
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... every Family might feel the power Of that blest charm spread e'er retirement's hour ; But vain the excursive wish , aspiring , bold— The narrow circle of my little fold Must be my humble bound - my humbler zeal To JOSEPH's ADMONITION . 29.
... every Family might feel the power Of that blest charm spread e'er retirement's hour ; But vain the excursive wish , aspiring , bold— The narrow circle of my little fold Must be my humble bound - my humbler zeal To JOSEPH's ADMONITION . 29.
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Page 82 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 31 - Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, or ever the evil days come and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
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