Elegy Written in Country Churchyard and Other PoemsRobert Carter & Brothers, 1853 - 186 pages |
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... 'd dead , If , ' chance , by lonely Contemplation led , Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate ; XXV Haply , some hoary - headed swain may say. Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; To meet the Sun upon the upland lawn .
... 'd dead , If , ' chance , by lonely Contemplation led , Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate ; XXV Haply , some hoary - headed swain may say. Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; To meet the Sun upon the upland lawn .
Page 91
... bent , Nor knew the gulf between . ( Malignant Fate sat by and smiled ) , The slippery verge her feet beguiled , She tumbled headlong in . Eight times emerging from the flood , She mew'd to DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT . 91.
... bent , Nor knew the gulf between . ( Malignant Fate sat by and smiled ) , The slippery verge her feet beguiled , She tumbled headlong in . Eight times emerging from the flood , She mew'd to DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT . 91.
Page 96
... fate , And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah , show them where in ambush stand , To seize their prey the murderous band ! Ah , tell them they are men ! • These shall the fury Passions tear , The vultures of the mind , Disdainful ...
... fate , And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah , show them where in ambush stand , To seize their prey the murderous band ! Ah , tell them they are men ! • These shall the fury Passions tear , The vultures of the mind , Disdainful ...
Page 98
... fate , Since sorrow never comes too late , And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise . No more - where ignorance is bliss , ' Tis folly to be wise . To Adversity . -Zīva- Τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ- σαντα , 98 ...
... fate , Since sorrow never comes too late , And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise . No more - where ignorance is bliss , ' Tis folly to be wise . To Adversity . -Zīva- Τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ- σαντα , 98 ...
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... Fate ! The fond complaint , my song , disprove , And justify the laws of Jove . Say , has he given in vain the heavenly muse ? Night and all her sickly dews , Her spectres wan and birds of boding cry , He gives to range the dreary sky ...
... Fate ! The fond complaint , my song , disprove , And justify the laws of Jove . Say , has he given in vain the heavenly muse ? Night and all her sickly dews , Her spectres wan and birds of boding cry , He gives to range the dreary sky ...
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Page 97 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Page 93 - Ye distant spires, ye antique towers That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th...
Page 104 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Page 109 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 110 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Page 110 - Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace!
Page 184 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 99 - DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitiet} and alone.
Page 118 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 96 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!