The Poetical MelangeG. A. Douglas, 1828 - English poetry |
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... twined Its fairy network around us , and made A harp for the cool sea wind , That came there with its low wild tones at night Like a sigh that is telling of past delight . And that wind , with its tale of flowers , 6 THE POETICAL MELANGE .
... twined Its fairy network around us , and made A harp for the cool sea wind , That came there with its low wild tones at night Like a sigh that is telling of past delight . And that wind , with its tale of flowers , 6 THE POETICAL MELANGE .
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... harps of the blest shall sweetly ring For her flight from a world like this ! She has gone to the home of the gentle heart , With spirits of light around her Where the glow of that innocence ne'er shall depart In which heaven's ...
... harps of the blest shall sweetly ring For her flight from a world like this ! She has gone to the home of the gentle heart , With spirits of light around her Where the glow of that innocence ne'er shall depart In which heaven's ...
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... harp , his sole remaining joy , Was carried by an orphan boy ; The last of all the bards was he , Who sung of Border chivalry . For , well - a - day ! their date was fled , His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he , neglected and ...
... harp , his sole remaining joy , Was carried by an orphan boy ; The last of all the bards was he , Who sung of Border chivalry . For , well - a - day ! their date was fled , His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he , neglected and ...
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... harp , a king had loved to hear . He passed where Newark's stately tower . Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye- No humbler resting - place was nigh . With hesitating step , at last , The embattled ...
... harp , a king had loved to hear . He passed where Newark's stately tower . Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye- No humbler resting - place was nigh . With hesitating step , at last , The embattled ...
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... harp he tried , His trembling hand had lost the ease , Which marks security to please : And scenes , long past , of joy and pain , Came wildering o'er his aged brain- He tried to tune his harp in vain . The pitying Duchess praised its ...
... harp he tried , His trembling hand had lost the ease , Which marks security to please : And scenes , long past , of joy and pain , Came wildering o'er his aged brain- He tried to tune his harp in vain . The pitying Duchess praised its ...
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Page 131 - ALL thoughts,' all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower. The moonshine, stealing o'er the scene, Had blended with the lights of eve; And she was there, my hope, my joy, My own dear Genevieve...
Page 24 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we call'd the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Page 85 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
Page 222 - Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my Thought, Yea, with my Life and Life's own secret joy: Till the dilating Soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing — there As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven.
Page 85 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 37 - Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steed to battle driven, And louder than the bolts of heaven Far flashed the red artillery. But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained snow, And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 'Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulph'rous canopy.
Page 166 - Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit In the light of its golden wings.
Page 37 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 62 - If aught should tempt my soul to stray From heavenly wisdom's narrow way ; To fly the good I would pursue, Or do the sin I would not do ; Still He, who felt temptation's power, Shall guard me in that dangerous hour.
Page 22 - THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away...