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... Beauty and Freedom in sisterhood smile . Still the future is pictured in colouring bright , For thee are reserved many days of delight . For thee , but my prophecies baseless may seem , Shall be realized joys of which others but dream ...
... Beauty and Freedom in sisterhood smile . Still the future is pictured in colouring bright , For thee are reserved many days of delight . For thee , but my prophecies baseless may seem , Shall be realized joys of which others but dream ...
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... beauty to thee has been long since decreed . Long unwither'd by time , may thy loveliness last , As the sun is still bright when the noon - day is past . Dec. the 6th , 1814 . To Emma . Stay ! my charmer can you leave VERSES . 9.
... beauty to thee has been long since decreed . Long unwither'd by time , may thy loveliness last , As the sun is still bright when the noon - day is past . Dec. the 6th , 1814 . To Emma . Stay ! my charmer can you leave VERSES . 9.
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... beauty was forgot . The sigh to memory gives a force , That brings before me all thy charms ; Of grief and joy alike the source Of rapture , or of fond alarms . The smile - for often will the smile Chase the sad shades of thought away ...
... beauty was forgot . The sigh to memory gives a force , That brings before me all thy charms ; Of grief and joy alike the source Of rapture , or of fond alarms . The smile - for often will the smile Chase the sad shades of thought away ...
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... . There is not much resemblance between the Peacock and the Eagle . Or his far renown'd ! -- Napoléon Buonaparte ! " How art thou fallen , Lucifer , son of the Morning ! " Justice may soon in all her beauty bloom , And 16 VERSES .
... . There is not much resemblance between the Peacock and the Eagle . Or his far renown'd ! -- Napoléon Buonaparte ! " How art thou fallen , Lucifer , son of the Morning ! " Justice may soon in all her beauty bloom , And 16 VERSES .
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Chandos Leigh. Justice may soon in all her beauty bloom , And prejudice lie sunk in dark oblivion's tomb . * And prejudice lie sunk . - Many believe that the world is now making a retrograde movement , and is falling back into Chaos and ...
Chandos Leigh. Justice may soon in all her beauty bloom , And prejudice lie sunk in dark oblivion's tomb . * And prejudice lie sunk . - Many believe that the world is now making a retrograde movement , and is falling back into Chaos and ...
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Akber's Almamon's Anacreon balm beauty beneath bleed blest bosom brave breast bright brows Brutus burn CHANDOS LEIGH Charles the VIIth charm'd charms cheer'd Cruel charmer DANTE Death of Hossein Decline and Fall delight despis'd E'en e'er earth Emma exprest eyes fairest Fairy Fairy Tale fame fancy feelings flowers genius Gibbon's Decline glides glory glow happiness heart Heaven Hispania homage hope lavish'd light Lord lov'd Love's Marriage mind mistress of Charles mourn Muse Muse's Napoléon ne'er Neath never night noble Northumberland-street nought o'er the bowl o'er thy Pansies passion Patriots perchance pleasure Poets poinard prejudice lie pride priz'd Prometheus proud Psyche quail Quarto rapture Roman Empire sacred Saint seem'd shades shed shine shone sigh smile soon sooth sorceress Sorel soul Spain Spenser's spirit strove sugar'd game tears tender thee thine THOU art Thou Astery thought tresses Valentine VERSES vinse virtue warms Weep whate'er woes zeal
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Page 23 - Teach you an artificial way to grieve, To keep your sorrow waking. Love your lord No worse than I ; but if you love so well, Alas, you may displease him, so did I. This is the last time you shall look on me : Ladies, farewell ; as soon as I am dead, Come all and watch one night about my hearse ; Bring each a mournful story and a tear To offer at it when I go to earth...
Page 7 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
Page 16 - Almamon, who gave away four-fifths of the income of a province — a sum of two millions four hundred thousand gold dinars — before he drew his foot from the stirrup. At the nuptials of the same prince, a thousand pearls of the largest size were showered on the head of the bride, and a lottery of lands and houses displayed the capricious bounty of fortune.
Page 17 - That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Page 61 - Dialogue appeared shortly after in the public prints. Question. Say, what has given to Flood a mortal wound ? Answer. Grattan's obtaining fifty thousand pound. Question. Can Flood forgive an injury so sore? Answer. Yes, if they give him fifty thousand more. MR. SHERIDAN. " In senates, there his talents shone confest ; As wit delighted, passion storm'd the breast. The mind with taste, sense, judgment, feeling, fraught, Seem'd to be blest by more than human thought! Hence, burning words for freedom...
Page 66 - The clearness of the heavens, the serenity of the air, and the soft tranquillity in which Nature reposes, contribute to harmonize the mind, and produce the most calm and delightful sensations. The moon too in these climates displays far greater radiance than in Europe: the smallest print is legible by her light; and in the moon's absence her function is not ill supplied by the brightness of the milky-way.
Page 64 - For he was false, and fraught with ficklenesse, And learned had to love with secret lookes ; And well could daunce, and sing with ruefulnesse ; And fortunes tell, and read in loving bookes, And thousand other waies to bait his fleshly hookes.
Page 5 - THESE few Verses form a Supplement to a collection of Poems which were printed some time since, and circulated by the Author, under the title of " Juvenile Poems."— They were never published.