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... heaven with lavish hand delights to shower On all its favourites , purity of heart , And strength of mind , that but with life depart . Pure as the air she breath'd , her sparkling eye Shone with that gentlest truest modesty , Which ...
... heaven with lavish hand delights to shower On all its favourites , purity of heart , And strength of mind , that but with life depart . Pure as the air she breath'd , her sparkling eye Shone with that gentlest truest modesty , Which ...
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... heaven . " That voice suffices . " It is she ! ' tis she ! " . He parts her jetty locks - what does he see ? Upon her forehead an indented scar Which forms in that fair heaven a fairer star . " God ! thou has given these aged eyes to ...
... heaven . " That voice suffices . " It is she ! ' tis she ! " . He parts her jetty locks - what does he see ? Upon her forehead an indented scar Which forms in that fair heaven a fairer star . " God ! thou has given these aged eyes to ...
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... heaven of bliss ! " But his first prayer is granted - he must die , Nor live to change his joy to agony . Yes ; he must die , and not remain to hear From their pale lips , a tale of woe and fear . 66 My children ! do not at this parting ...
... heaven of bliss ! " But his first prayer is granted - he must die , Nor live to change his joy to agony . Yes ; he must die , and not remain to hear From their pale lips , a tale of woe and fear . 66 My children ! do not at this parting ...
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... heaven ! I cannot resist the temptation to extract the following eloquent passage from Voltaire . " Friendship is a tacit contract between two sensible and virtuous souls : I say sensible ; for a monk , a hermit , may not be wicked ...
... heaven ! I cannot resist the temptation to extract the following eloquent passage from Voltaire . " Friendship is a tacit contract between two sensible and virtuous souls : I say sensible ; for a monk , a hermit , may not be wicked ...
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... heaven ? Unhallow'd doctrine ! which would thus debase Our holiest hopes , and blur the saving grace— The proud pre - eminence so just and pure →→ That marks an union fitted to endure Through all the wild vicissitudes of life , Its ...
... heaven ? Unhallow'd doctrine ! which would thus debase Our holiest hopes , and blur the saving grace— The proud pre - eminence so just and pure →→ That marks an union fitted to endure Through all the wild vicissitudes of life , Its ...
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affection's Allan Edwards aught beauty Blackwood's Magazine bless bliss bloom bosom breast bright bright eye brow caitiff calm charms cheek cheer cold CONRADE Count Julian crime dark dear death deeds deem didst doom dream dwell e'er early earth ev'n EVELINA EVERARD fair fame fate fear feel Floranthe fond fondly Forget Friendship gaze gentle gloom glowing gone grief GUIDO happy hath heart heaven HELVETIUS hope hour Italia lady leave so soon Leoline Leon life's light live lofty lonely look lord Lord Byron memory mind misanthropic Naples Napoleon ne'er o'er pain pangs passion past perchance Phocion pleasure pride proud pure rapture seek shone sigh sire smile song soothing sorrow soul spell spirit spurn sweet tale tears tell thee thine thou art thou hast thou wert thought tomb tortures truth Twas tyrant virtue wild witchery young youth
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Page 147 - But these are deeds which should not pass away, And names that must not wither, though the Earth Forgets her empires with a just decay, The enslavers and the enslaved — their death and birth...
Page 112 - ... Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more. No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp of Tara swells : The chord alone, that breaks at night, Its tale of ruin tells. Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes, The only throb she gives Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives.
Page xi - The sword he liked the best. But calm — most calm was all his face, A solemn smile was on his lips, His eyes were closed in pensive grace — A most serene eclipse ! Ye would have said some sainted sprite Had left its passionless abode, — Some man, whose prayer at morn and night Had duly risen to God. What thoughts had...
Page 150 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH I breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade. Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Page xvi - ALL that's bright must fade, — The brightest still the fleetest ; All that's sweet was made, But to be lost when sweetest. Stars that shine and fall ; — The flower that drops in springing ; . These, alas ! are types of all To which our hearts are clinging.
Page 116 - FAREWELL ! — but whenever you welcome the hour, That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower, Then think of the friend who once welcom'd it too, And forgot his own griefs to be happy with you.
Page 77 - Oh, more or less than man — in high or low, Battling with nations, flying from the field ; Now making monarchs' necks thy footstool, now More than thy meanest soldier taught to yield : An empire thou couldst crush, command, rebuild, But govern not thy pettiest passion, nor, However deeply in men's spirits...
Page 116 - To the highest top sparkle each heart and each cup, Where'er my path lies, be it gloomy or bright, My soul, happy friends, shall be with you that night; Shall join in your revels, your sports, and...
Page 139 - Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me.
Page 24 - By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on— it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies.