Specimens of the American PoetsT. and J. Allman, 1822 - 283 من الصفحات |
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... dream , Or list perverse to every theme , Save that their sons essay . But though it may perhaps be admitted , that America will long continue without distinguishing herself as a country eminently poetical , yet it by no means follows ...
... dream , Or list perverse to every theme , Save that their sons essay . But though it may perhaps be admitted , that America will long continue without distinguishing herself as a country eminently poetical , yet it by no means follows ...
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... than idly gaze upon the stream ? — That boy is lost in a poetic dream : And , while his eye follows the wave along , His soul expatiates in the realms of song . 8 For oft , where yonder grassy hills recede , AIRS OF PALESTINE . 35 36.
... than idly gaze upon the stream ? — That boy is lost in a poetic dream : And , while his eye follows the wave along , His soul expatiates in the realms of song . 8 For oft , where yonder grassy hills recede , AIRS OF PALESTINE . 35 36.
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... by despair opprest , And dream'd of freedom in his broken rest ; Wakes at the music of those mellow strains , Thinks it some spirit , and forgets his chains . ' Tis Paul and Silas ; who , at midnight 38 AIRS OF PALESTINE .
... by despair opprest , And dream'd of freedom in his broken rest ; Wakes at the music of those mellow strains , Thinks it some spirit , and forgets his chains . ' Tis Paul and Silas ; who , at midnight 38 AIRS OF PALESTINE .
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... dream , Leave that lone mountain , and that silent stream ? Say , could not then the " Man of Sorrows " claim Your shield of adamant , your sword of flame ? - Hell forc'd a smile , at your retiring wing , And man was left - to crucify ...
... dream , Leave that lone mountain , and that silent stream ? Say , could not then the " Man of Sorrows " claim Your shield of adamant , your sword of flame ? - Hell forc'd a smile , at your retiring wing , And man was left - to crucify ...
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... dream , Backward he springs : and , through his bounding heart , The cold and curdling poison seems to dart . For , in the leaves , beneath a quivering brake , Spinning his death - note , lies a coiling snake , Just in the act , with ...
... dream , Backward he springs : and , through his bounding heart , The cold and curdling poison seems to dart . For , in the leaves , beneath a quivering brake , Spinning his death - note , lies a coiling snake , Just in the act , with ...
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الصفحة 206 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
الصفحة 57 - And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
الصفحة 218 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
الصفحة 69 - For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
الصفحة 209 - I'll not o'erlook the modest flower That made the woods of April bright. INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.
الصفحة 216 - Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again ; And, lost each human trace...
الصفحة 209 - Try their thin wings and dance in the warm beam That waked them into life. Even the green trees Partake the deep contentment ; as they bend To the soft winds, the sun from the blue sky Looks in and sheds a blessing on the scene. Scarce less the cleft-born wild-flower seems to enjoy Existence, than the winged plunderer That sucks its sweets.
الصفحة 57 - And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
الصفحة 206 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
الصفحة 216 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.