The pleasures of melancholy, and other poemsSaunders and Otley, 1847 - 119 pages |
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amid Art thou beam beauty blessed blest bliss bosom breast bright BROMWICH brow burning flame calm CASTLE BROMWICH cave charm confest dark dear death deep delight despair doth dream earth erring eternal evermore fair Faith feel flower gazed grace hadst happy days hath hearts beat light heaven holy hope hour Jesus John Barleycorn Lass life's little John look lour love divine maiden man's best friend Mary MARY-JANE meek merry Methought mind Miss never night o'er Oh yes peace pensive Pipe pleasure praise prayer pretty raptures rest SABBATH Saviour seek Seraph share sigh sing sleep soft song sorrow soul steal stony heart Sweet Lylla sweet Melancholy sweetly taught tears tell thine thou art thou hast thought trace trust truth Twas Twill twould unto Vale village virtue wake wander weep young youth
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Page 57 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew.
Page 1 - There is a mood, (I sing not to the vacant and the young) There is a kindly mood of melancholy, That wings the soul, and points her to the skies...
Page i - There is at least, said the stranger, one advantage in the poetical inclination, that it is an incentive to philanthropy. There is a certain poetic ground on which a man cannot tread without feelings that enlarge the heart ; the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes; and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by, the air of the climate.
Page 13 - Sweet source of virtue, O sacred sorrow ! he who knows not thee Knows not the best emotions of the heart, — Those tender tears that harmonize the soul, The sigh that charms, the pang that gives delight.
Page vii - ... that Melancholy is forbidding ; in herself she is soft and interesting, and capable of affording pure and unalloyed delight. Ask the lover why he muses by the side of the purling brook, or plunges...
Page 48 - HE IS A FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, ALL OF THE OLDEN TIME.