The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by Gray. Death, a poem, by bishop Porteus [&c.].1804 |
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... courses of the far - seen orbs , That roll with regular confusion there , In extacy of thought . But ah ! proud man ! Great heights are hazardous to the weak head : Soon , very soon , thy firmest footing fails ; And down thou dropp'st ...
... courses of the far - seen orbs , That roll with regular confusion there , In extacy of thought . But ah ! proud man ! Great heights are hazardous to the weak head : Soon , very soon , thy firmest footing fails ; And down thou dropp'st ...
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... course of twice five hundred years , One solitary ghost went shiv'ring down To his unpeopled shore . In sober state , Through the sequester'd vale of rural life , The venerable Patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way ; Labour ...
... course of twice five hundred years , One solitary ghost went shiv'ring down To his unpeopled shore . In sober state , Through the sequester'd vale of rural life , The venerable Patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way ; Labour ...
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... course , Safe glides his little bark along the shore Where Virtue takes her stand ; but if too far He launches forth beyond Discretion's mark , Sudden the tempest scowls ,, the surges roar , Blot his fair day , and plunge him in the ...
... course , Safe glides his little bark along the shore Where Virtue takes her stand ; but if too far He launches forth beyond Discretion's mark , Sudden the tempest scowls ,, the surges roar , Blot his fair day , and plunge him in the ...
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... course . But nature's God , If need require , by thousand various ways , Without thy aid , can shorten that short span , And quench the lamp of life . O when he comes , Rous'd by the cry of wickedness extreme , To heav'n ascending from ...
... course . But nature's God , If need require , by thousand various ways , Without thy aid , can shorten that short span , And quench the lamp of life . O when he comes , Rous'd by the cry of wickedness extreme , To heav'n ascending from ...
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... ! They bid us hasten to be wise , and show How rapid in their course our minutes flow . Now fairy shapes , and hideous spectres dance . Athwart imagination's vivid glance ; The felon now attacks the miser's door , And ruthless SOLILOQUY.
... ! They bid us hasten to be wise , and show How rapid in their course our minutes flow . Now fairy shapes , and hideous spectres dance . Athwart imagination's vivid glance ; The felon now attacks the miser's door , And ruthless SOLILOQUY.
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Almighty arrow cross beneath Bishop Porteus bleeding blood bloom boast breath catholicons cheek cheer COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD cruel dæmon dark dead dead of night Death deep disarm'd dread drops dust E'en e'er earth endless pains ev'n ev'ry fair fame flatt'ring foul gen'ral gen'rous gentle gloomy groan hand hard hunted hast heart Heav'n honour'd horrors hour immortal song joys life's ling'ring liv'd live look loud mankind mansions Methinks mighty nature ne'er neighbours say night nought o'er Offer'd once pain paths of glory Peace pow'r promis'd proud Robert Blair round rouze rude ruin scarce scatter'd shew sight Smil'd smile sons soon soul sound spoils stamp'd strange stream sudden sweet swoln tale tell thee thick thine thing thou thro tomb twas tyrant vex'd warm weary WESTMINSTER ABBEY Whilst wreck wretch yonder younker youth
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الصفحة 29 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke...
الصفحة 32 - Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own.
الصفحة 31 - With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
الصفحة 29 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
الصفحة 50 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
الصفحة 50 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
الصفحة 50 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
الصفحة 31 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth...
الصفحة 3 - WHILST some affect the sun, and some the shade, Some flee the city, some the hermitage ; Their aims as various, as the roads they take In journeying through life ; — the task be mine To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb ; Th' appointed place of rendezvous, where all These travellers meet.