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... mother and Bolman , dr . pamphleteer . 356 daughter 86 Bombay described by a late traveller 196 Dinner in the steam - boat , a sketch 117 Bonpland in South America 87 Discontented pendulum 340 Boron , its qualities 33 Discovery of a ...
... mother and Bolman , dr . pamphleteer . 356 daughter 86 Bombay described by a late traveller 196 Dinner in the steam - boat , a sketch 117 Bonpland in South America 87 Discontented pendulum 340 Boron , its qualities 33 Discovery of a ...
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... Mother's lament for her boy 97 330 Memento mori 225 115 Mother's lament for an infant daughter 306 Moorish romance 389 My soul they say is hard and cold 465 Constancy , a song 83 My first - born , smiling 373 Convict ship 481 Childhood ...
... Mother's lament for her boy 97 330 Memento mori 225 115 Mother's lament for an infant daughter 306 Moorish romance 389 My soul they say is hard and cold 465 Constancy , a song 83 My first - born , smiling 373 Convict ship 481 Childhood ...
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... mother's land ! Hence , on her breast The cross beneath a Moorish vest ; And hence those sweetest sounds , that seem Like music murmuring in a dream , When in our sleeping ear is ringing The song the nightingale is singing ; When by ...
... mother's land ! Hence , on her breast The cross beneath a Moorish vest ; And hence those sweetest sounds , that seem Like music murmuring in a dream , When in our sleeping ear is ringing The song the nightingale is singing ; When by ...
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... mother , whose age she had left ---- to weep When that the tempter flattered her and wiled Her steps away . Yet her ... mother's age , - Just such her end would be with her away : No child the last cold death - pang to assuage- No child ...
... mother , whose age she had left ---- to weep When that the tempter flattered her and wiled Her steps away . Yet her ... mother's age , - Just such her end would be with her away : No child the last cold death - pang to assuage- No child ...
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... mother there . A heavy flame Gleamed from a dying lamp ; a cold air came Damp from the broken casement . There one lay , Like marble seen but by the moonlight ray ! And ROSALIE drew near . One withered hand Was stretched , as it would ...
... mother there . A heavy flame Gleamed from a dying lamp ; a cold air came Damp from the broken casement . There one lay , Like marble seen but by the moonlight ray ! And ROSALIE drew near . One withered hand Was stretched , as it would ...
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Page 379 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 258 - Live not the stars and mountains ? Are the waves Without a spirit ? Are the dropping caves Without a feeling in their silent tears ? No, no ; they woo and clasp us to their spheres, Dissolve this clog and clod of clay before Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore.
Page 479 - Was on the streams of Guadalquiver, To gold converting, one by one, The ripples of the mighty river, Beside me on the bank was seated A Seville girl, with auburn hair, And eyes that might the world have cheated, — A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair ! She stooped, and wrote upon the sand, Just as the loving sun was going, With such a soft, small, shining hand, I could have sworn 't was silver flowing. Her words were three, and not one more, What could Diana's motto be ? The siren wrote upon the...
Page 479 - When words come down like dews unsought With gleams of deep enthusiast thought, And fancy in her heaven flies free — They come, my love, they come from thee.
Page 112 - PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh, give relief, and heaven will bless your store.
Page 263 - O'er beauty's fall ; Her praise resounds no more, when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day ; So music past is obsolete, And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis gone away...
Page 340 - is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through?" " For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here: and although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out.
Page 340 - may I be allowed to inquire, if that exertion was at all fatiguing or disagreeable to you ?" " Not in the least," replied the pendulum; " it is not of six strokes that I complain, nor of sixty, but of millions.
Page 112 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see ; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery.
Page 50 - ... repressed with a smile the hopes of his friends, and told them he had lived long enough. As his life drew near a close, the eager yet decorous solicitude of his fellow townsmen increased.