The Votive Wreath, and Other PoemsBulcock, 1826 - 158 pages |
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... tell Who taste it's joys - who feel it's spell , And bless the gentle soft controul Which binds it's tendrils round the soul ; And you whom worldlings have forgot Can tell , alas ! what it is not . ' Tis not that ill - compacted band ...
... tell Who taste it's joys - who feel it's spell , And bless the gentle soft controul Which binds it's tendrils round the soul ; And you whom worldlings have forgot Can tell , alas ! what it is not . ' Tis not that ill - compacted band ...
Page 41
... The busy throng that peopled her fair streets ? All - all engulph'd by one concussive shock , Nor left one wreck to tell that once she was ! Loosed from the storehouse of Omnipotence , The furious hurricane CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1792 . 41.
... The busy throng that peopled her fair streets ? All - all engulph'd by one concussive shock , Nor left one wreck to tell that once she was ! Loosed from the storehouse of Omnipotence , The furious hurricane CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1792 . 41.
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... tell How many widows ' sighs shall rise to Heaven , How many orphans ' tears bedew the earth , How many childless mothers mourn their sons , How many friends be sever'd , ere again In welcome peace that fatal sword be sheath'd ? E'en in ...
... tell How many widows ' sighs shall rise to Heaven , How many orphans ' tears bedew the earth , How many childless mothers mourn their sons , How many friends be sever'd , ere again In welcome peace that fatal sword be sheath'd ? E'en in ...
Page 53
... tell , though sweet The tale , of that pure love which knit thy soul In bonds of mutual faith with Jonathan , That tender pleader of thy righteous cause , E'en while his mystic arrows pointed out Thy pathway to his kingdom . - Neither tell ...
... tell , though sweet The tale , of that pure love which knit thy soul In bonds of mutual faith with Jonathan , That tender pleader of thy righteous cause , E'en while his mystic arrows pointed out Thy pathway to his kingdom . - Neither tell ...
Page 92
... be your theme . Let rescued Portugal his praise resound ; Spain her deliverer boast . Impartial too , Let France but teach her own historians truth ; And tell who made her boasted armies flee , Who 92 RETROSPECT AT THE.
... be your theme . Let rescued Portugal his praise resound ; Spain her deliverer boast . Impartial too , Let France but teach her own historians truth ; And tell who made her boasted armies flee , Who 92 RETROSPECT AT THE.
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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.
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