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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... beloved , Alone begotten ! say , shall He become A man of grief - for man ? nay , more , his foe , Rebellious next the fiends ? -Astonishment Had chain'd my tongue to silence , if the powers DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL . 11.
... beloved , Alone begotten ! say , shall He become A man of grief - for man ? nay , more , his foe , Rebellious next the fiends ? -Astonishment Had chain'd my tongue to silence , if the powers DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL . 11.
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... silence , if the powers ' Of tenderest pity and of warmest love Provoked not pensive measures , sadder strains Of elegiac sorrow , with the theme Mournfully varying . Take , my soul redeem'd ! O , take the moaning dove's dew - dropping ...
... silence , if the powers ' Of tenderest pity and of warmest love Provoked not pensive measures , sadder strains Of elegiac sorrow , with the theme Mournfully varying . Take , my soul redeem'd ! O , take the moaning dove's dew - dropping ...
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... dews , Abroad , in silent softness shedst ; the dews Of Love unspotted , uncorrupted Joy ; The Elements . A Poem : in Four Books . Obedient Goodness , Temperance subdued , Unshaken Faith , and DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL . 13.
... dews , Abroad , in silent softness shedst ; the dews Of Love unspotted , uncorrupted Joy ; The Elements . A Poem : in Four Books . Obedient Goodness , Temperance subdued , Unshaken Faith , and DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL . 13.
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... silence of the mind ? Then rest my thoughts ; nor longer roam In quest of joy , for Heaven's at home . But , oh ! thy beams of warmest love ; Sure they were made for worlds above . How shall my soul her powers extend , Beyond where Time ...
... silence of the mind ? Then rest my thoughts ; nor longer roam In quest of joy , for Heaven's at home . But , oh ! thy beams of warmest love ; Sure they were made for worlds above . How shall my soul her powers extend , Beyond where Time ...
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... silent star Came wandering from afar , [ high : Gliding unchecked and calm along the liquid sky ; The eastern sages leading on , As at a kingly throne , To lay their gold and odours sweet Before thy infant feet . The earth and ocean ...
... silent star Came wandering from afar , [ high : Gliding unchecked and calm along the liquid sky ; The eastern sages leading on , As at a kingly throne , To lay their gold and odours sweet Before thy infant feet . The earth and ocean ...
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