The Remains of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge, Volumes 2-3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; and Taylor and Hessey, 1811 |
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... little friend , thy style I'd change to happier lays , Oh ! then , the cloister'd glooms should smile , And through the long the fretted aisle Should swell the note of praise . CLIFTON GROVE . A sketch in Verse . LO ! 10.
... little friend , thy style I'd change to happier lays , Oh ! then , the cloister'd glooms should smile , And through the long the fretted aisle Should swell the note of praise . CLIFTON GROVE . A sketch in Verse . LO ! 10.
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... happiness evades the busy croud , In rural coverts loves the maid to shroud . And thou , too Inspiration , whose wild flame Shoots with electric swiftness through the frame , Thou here , dost love to sit with up - turn'd eye , And ...
... happiness evades the busy croud , In rural coverts loves the maid to shroud . And thou , too Inspiration , whose wild flame Shoots with electric swiftness through the frame , Thou here , dost love to sit with up - turn'd eye , And ...
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... happiness , Say , can it soothe the slumbers of the grave ? Give a new zest to bliss ? or chase the pangs Of everlasting punishment condign ? Alas ! how vain are mortal man's desires ! How fruitless his pursuits ! Eternal God ! Guide ...
... happiness , Say , can it soothe the slumbers of the grave ? Give a new zest to bliss ? or chase the pangs Of everlasting punishment condign ? Alas ! how vain are mortal man's desires ! How fruitless his pursuits ! Eternal God ! Guide ...
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... happiness , -romantic schemes , And fraught with loveliness ; and it is hard To feel the hand of death arrest one's steps , Throw a chill blight o'er all one's budding hopes , And hurl one's soul untimely to the shades , Lost in the ...
... happiness , -romantic schemes , And fraught with loveliness ; and it is hard To feel the hand of death arrest one's steps , Throw a chill blight o'er all one's budding hopes , And hurl one's soul untimely to the shades , Lost in the ...
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... the web of Misery weave . So Hope exultant spreads her aëry sail , And from the present gloom , the soul conveys , To distant summers , and far happier days . YE unseen spirits , whose wild melodies , At evening 108 To April.
... the web of Misery weave . So Hope exultant spreads her aëry sail , And from the present gloom , the soul conveys , To distant summers , and far happier days . YE unseen spirits , whose wild melodies , At evening 108 To April.
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Arminians ARMINIUS Athyras awful Behold bless bliss breast calm CAPEL LOFFT Christ Christian cloud croud dark dear death deep delight distant divine doctrines dost Epicurus eternal evil fear feel genius gloom God's Gondoline grace grave hand happiness harp hath hear heard heart Heaven HENRY KIRKE WHITE holy Honington honours hope human JAMES ARMINIUS Jesus John Calvin Josephus labour learning light live lonely Lord loud lyre mankind mind morning mortal mournful muse nature never night Nottingham o'er pain pale peace pensive philosophy pleasure poem poet poor prayer Pythagoras Quatorzain racter religion rise ROBERT SOUTHEY scene sigh silent sleep smile soft solemn solitude song SONNET soul sound spirit star of Bethlehem storm sublime sweet tear thee thine things thou thought throne tion truth verses wave weep wild winds wonder youth Zoroaster
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Page 130 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 197 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 200 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.
Page 199 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page xiii - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Page 199 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Page 198 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 126 - BETHLEHEM. 1 WHEN, marshalled on the nightly plain, The glittering host bestud the sky; One star alone of all the train, Can fix the sinner's wandering eye. 2 Hark! hark! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem : But one alone the Saviour speaks ; It is the Star of Bethlehem.
Page 127 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored, my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, For ever and for evermore, The Star, the Star of Bethlehem.
Page 127 - Once on the raging seas I rode, The storm was loud, the night was dark, The ocean yawned, and rudely blowed The wind that tossed my foundering bark.