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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... voice unto the angel quire , From out his secret altar touch'd with hallow'd fire . THE HYMN .. Ir was the winter wild , While the heaven - born child All meanly wrapp'd in the rude manger lies : Nature , in awe to him , Had doff'd her ...
... voice unto the angel quire , From out his secret altar touch'd with hallow'd fire . THE HYMN .. Ir was the winter wild , While the heaven - born child All meanly wrapp'd in the rude manger lies : Nature , in awe to him , Had doff'd her ...
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... voice Answering the stringed noise , As all their souls in blissful rapture took ; The air , such pleasure loath to lose , [ close . With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly Nature that heard such sound , Beneath the hollow ...
... voice Answering the stringed noise , As all their souls in blissful rapture took ; The air , such pleasure loath to lose , [ close . With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly Nature that heard such sound , Beneath the hollow ...
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... ground In straiter limits bound , Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; And , wroth to see his kingdom fail , Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail . The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum 6 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... ground In straiter limits bound , Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; And , wroth to see his kingdom fail , Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail . The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum 6 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving . Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine , With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving . No nightly trance , or breathed spell , [ cell . Inspires the pale ...
... voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving . Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine , With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving . No nightly trance , or breathed spell , [ cell . Inspires the pale ...
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... And , coexisting Spirit ! Thou , whose breath My voice informs , shall it be mute to Thee , Eternal Paraclete ? in order , last , Equal in glory to Omnipotence The First , as to the Second ; and from 12 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... And , coexisting Spirit ! Thou , whose breath My voice informs , shall it be mute to Thee , Eternal Paraclete ? in order , last , Equal in glory to Omnipotence The First , as to the Second ; and from 12 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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angel ANNA SEWARD Antistrophe art thou beam beauty Behold beneath blaze bless'd bliss bloom bosom bower breast breath bright brow charms cloud dark death divine dread earth eternal fair fame fire fix'd flame flow flowers GISBORNE glories glow golden grace grave grove Hadramut hail hand harmonious music hear heart heaven heavenly immortal Jehovah kings life's light living Lord lyre Maia maid mercy mind morn mortal Muse Nature's night nymph o'er passion peace pinnace praise pride rage rapture reign rill rise round rove sacred Sarissa scene seraphs shade shine shore sigh sight silent silvan skies smile soft song soul sound star stream sublime sweet swell tears tell tempest thee thine thou thought throne thunder toil train trembling Twas vale virtue voice waves ween wild wings wonder youth