Contemplation: A Poem : with Tales, and Other Poetical CompositionsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - 217 من الصفحات |
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... mournful lowings speak Instinctive fears - the feather'd tribes are mute , In darkest covert hid - the lurid sky Man fearful eyes as silently he walks , And to his trembling family retires . Now cowering NATURE waits the dread event In ...
... mournful lowings speak Instinctive fears - the feather'd tribes are mute , In darkest covert hid - the lurid sky Man fearful eyes as silently he walks , And to his trembling family retires . Now cowering NATURE waits the dread event In ...
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... wish'd for day . Nor rises now the sun as yester morn , Gilding with chearful ray the smiling face Of fair Creation - but o'er Nature's wreck 140 Beams mournful light , and shows where ruin spread In 12 CONTEMPLATION .
... wish'd for day . Nor rises now the sun as yester morn , Gilding with chearful ray the smiling face Of fair Creation - but o'er Nature's wreck 140 Beams mournful light , and shows where ruin spread In 12 CONTEMPLATION .
الصفحة 13
A Poem : with Tales, and Other Poetical Compositions John Penwarne. Beams mournful light , and shows where ruin spread In hideous prospect lies . In silence lo ! The PLANTER stands the statue of despair ; Around in sorrow rolls his eye ...
A Poem : with Tales, and Other Poetical Compositions John Penwarne. Beams mournful light , and shows where ruin spread In hideous prospect lies . In silence lo ! The PLANTER stands the statue of despair ; Around in sorrow rolls his eye ...
الصفحة 32
... mournful MUSE , Who with thy song would mix her plaintive lay And soothe thy mind with melancholy strains ; For grief's sad luxury is now thine all ! Save when at times , to thy deluded sense 200 Appears thy WILLIAM rising from the wave ...
... mournful MUSE , Who with thy song would mix her plaintive lay And soothe thy mind with melancholy strains ; For grief's sad luxury is now thine all ! Save when at times , to thy deluded sense 200 Appears thy WILLIAM rising from the wave ...
الصفحة 33
... mournful melting on the ear of NIGHT . Ere long the scene will close - sweet blighted flower O'erloaded with Misfortune's baleful dews , Down to the grave thy drooping head will sink ; 210 And o'er thy hillock green , the village maids ...
... mournful melting on the ear of NIGHT . Ere long the scene will close - sweet blighted flower O'erloaded with Misfortune's baleful dews , Down to the grave thy drooping head will sink ; 210 And o'er thy hillock green , the village maids ...
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awaye beautiful Bellerus beneath blaste bosom CANTO Cassiterides cheer clouds colour CONTEMPLATION Corineus Cornish Cornwall corse courser cried crystals Cup of Sorrow Damsels dark daughter dear deep dews DOZMARÊ POOLE dreade earth fable fair fear fleete foolscap 8vo forreste frome GILES GOONHYLDA grave grove Guarded Mount hand head heart Heav'n heave hill howling hys castle KNYGHTE labour Launceston light lodes Logris Maid manye MARY MATCHLESS midnight midst mighty moon morn mournful MUSE mysts ne'er NEDDY night numbers o'er ocean pleas'd POEMS PYRITES rise round sail scene seem'd shore sigh Sir Tristram smiles snowy white song soul SPRYTE storm Strabo stylle sweep sweet syghte sylver SYR TREGEAGLE TALE tear thee thou thro tints toil TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS Tristram Twas view'd village maids vols waves weene Whilst Whych Whyle wild winds wing wynde wyth
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الصفحة 63 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
الصفحة 83 - There is a popular story attached to this lake, ridiculous enough as most of those tales are. It is, that a person of the name of Tregeagle, who had been a rich and powerful man but very wicked, guilty of murder and other heinous crimes, lived near this place ; and that, after his death, his spirit haunted the neighbourhood, but was at length exorcised and laid to rest in Dozmare
الصفحة 84 - Tregeagle, who had been a rich and powerful man, but very wicked, guilty of murder and other heinous crimes, lived near this place; and that, after his death, his spirit haunted the neighbourhood, but was at length exorcised and laid to rest in Dozmare Pool. But having in his lifetime, in order to enjoy the good things of this world, disposed of his soul and body to the devil, his infernal majesty takes great pleasure in tormenting him, by imposing on him difficult tasks; such as spinning a rope...
الصفحة 208 - ... it would have obtained for its author a very considerable reputation, though her former work had been wholly unknown.
الصفحة 208 - Vol. I. containing, the Sabbath (5th edition) ; Sabbath Walks ; the Rural Calendar ; and Smaller Poems. Vol. II. containing, the Birds of Scotland ; and Mary Stuart, a Dramatic Poem. 13. THE BIRDS OF SCOTLAND, BIBLICAL PICTURES, and THE RURAL CALENDAR, with other POEMS. By JAMES GRAHAME, Author of " The Sabbath,
الصفحة 208 - Walks ; the Rural Calendar ; and smaller Poems. Vol. II. containing! the Birds of Scotland ; and Mary Stuart, a Dramatic Poem. THE BIRDS of SCOTLAND, BIBLICAL PICTURES and THE RURAL CALENDAR, with other Poems. ' By JAMES GRAHAME, Anthor of " The Sahhath,
الصفحة 85 - IN Cornwaile's famed land, bye the poole on the moore, Tregeagle the wickede did dwelle ; He once was a shepherde, contented and poore, But growing ambytious, and wishing for more, Sad fortune the shepherde befelle.
الصفحة 79 - ... he considers the sun as a most magnificent habitable globe, surrounded by a double set of clouds. Those which are nearest its opaque body are less bright, and more closely connected together, than those of the upper stratum, which form the luminous apparent globe we behold. This luminous external matter is of a phosphoric nature, having several accidental openings in it, through which we see the sun's body, or the more opaque clouds beneath.
الصفحة 72 - Once girt with spreading oaks ; mysterious rows Of rude enormous obelisks, that rise Orb within orb, stupendous monuments Of artless architecture, such as now Oft-times amaze the wandering traveller, By the pale moon discern'd on Sarum's plain...
الصفحة 84 - ... &c., and at times amuses himself with hunting him over the moors with his hell-hounds, at which time Tregeagle is heard to howl and roar in a most dreadful manner, so that "roaring and howling like Tregeagle...