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Page viii
... often engulphed , and it is to give honor to whom honor is due , and to rescue the poets at least , from this mighty maelstrom , that this volume is now sent forth . It will be perceived at a glance that this work viii PREFACE.
... often engulphed , and it is to give honor to whom honor is due , and to rescue the poets at least , from this mighty maelstrom , that this volume is now sent forth . It will be perceived at a glance that this work viii PREFACE.
Page ix
... give a selection - in most cases complete poems - from each of the best , or most noted poets . The selections have been most copious from the minor poets - those least known in this country ; among them will be found some of the most ...
... give a selection - in most cases complete poems - from each of the best , or most noted poets . The selections have been most copious from the minor poets - those least known in this country ; among them will be found some of the most ...
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... Gives way . O lamentable sight ! At once The labor of whole ages lumbers down , A hideous and misshapen length of ruins . Sepulchral columns wrestle , but in vain , With all - subduing Time ; her cank'ring hand , With calm deliberate ...
... Gives way . O lamentable sight ! At once The labor of whole ages lumbers down , A hideous and misshapen length of ruins . Sepulchral columns wrestle , but in vain , With all - subduing Time ; her cank'ring hand , With calm deliberate ...
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... gives it a new pulse unknown before , The grave discredits thee : thy charms expunged , Thy roses faded , and thy lilies soil'd , What hast thou more to boast of ? Will thy lovers Flock round thee now , to gaze and do thee 32 BLAIR .
... gives it a new pulse unknown before , The grave discredits thee : thy charms expunged , Thy roses faded , and thy lilies soil'd , What hast thou more to boast of ? Will thy lovers Flock round thee now , to gaze and do thee 32 BLAIR .
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... by far too scant To give the lungs full play ! what now avail The strong - built sinewy limbs , and well - spread shoulders ? See how he tugs for life , and lays about him , Mad with his pain ! Eager he catches hold Of THE GRAVE . 33.
... by far too scant To give the lungs full play ! what now avail The strong - built sinewy limbs , and well - spread shoulders ? See how he tugs for life , and lays about him , Mad with his pain ! Eager he catches hold Of THE GRAVE . 33.
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Page 140 - November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant...
Page 145 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme : How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How He who bore in heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land ; How he who, lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope "...
Page 205 - Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.
Page 262 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 200 - No portents now our foes amaze, Forsaken Israel wanders lone ; Our fathers would not know THY ways, And THOU hast left them to their own. But, present still, though now unseen ; When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
Page 250 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Page 146 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 151 - Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Page 452 - Aid the dawning tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper — aid it type, — Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!
Page 67 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave ; but thou thyself movest aloive.