New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection from the Most Eminent British Poets and Poetical Translators, Volume 1Richard Alfred Davenport C. and C. Whittingham, 1823 |
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... clouds dividing ; And , waving wide her myrtle wand , She strikes a universal peace through sea and land . Nor war nor battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood ...
... clouds dividing ; And , waving wide her myrtle wand , She strikes a universal peace through sea and land . Nor war nor battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood ...
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... clouds down steer- And Heaven , as at some festival , Will open wide the gates of her high palace hall . But wisest Fate says NO , This must not yet be so , The Babe yet lies in smiling infancy , That on the bitter cross Must redeem our ...
... clouds down steer- And Heaven , as at some festival , Will open wide the gates of her high palace hall . But wisest Fate says NO , This must not yet be so , The Babe yet lies in smiling infancy , That on the bitter cross Must redeem our ...
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... clouds of wrath ( the blackest Of an offended God ! ) His beauties shade ; But shade not long it soon in drops dissolves , Sweet to the soul as manna to the taste , As pride of summer flower to sight or smell ! Behind this shadowing cloud ...
... clouds of wrath ( the blackest Of an offended God ! ) His beauties shade ; But shade not long it soon in drops dissolves , Sweet to the soul as manna to the taste , As pride of summer flower to sight or smell ! Behind this shadowing cloud ...
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... clouds conceal thy throne ? Divide , ye clouds , and let me see The Power that gives me leave to be . Or , art thou all diffused abroad Through boundless space DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL . 15 Address to the Deity Watts.
... clouds conceal thy throne ? Divide , ye clouds , and let me see The Power that gives me leave to be . Or , art thou all diffused abroad Through boundless space DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL . 15 Address to the Deity Watts.
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... clouds , enroll'd with deadly food , Forget to thunder in the ' etherial towers , But silently dissolve in kindly mood , In fostering dews , and balm , and honey showers ; Laugh all the fields for joy , and all the bowers . The shrubs ...
... clouds , enroll'd with deadly food , Forget to thunder in the ' etherial towers , But silently dissolve in kindly mood , In fostering dews , and balm , and honey showers ; Laugh all the fields for joy , and all the bowers . The shrubs ...
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