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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... across life's gloomy way , Could throw a gleam of transitory day . How gay , in youth , the flattering future seems ; How sweet is manhood in the infants ' dreams ; VOL . II , C The dire mistake too soon is brought to light , 17.
... across life's gloomy way , Could throw a gleam of transitory day . How gay , in youth , the flattering future seems ; How sweet is manhood in the infants ' dreams ; VOL . II , C The dire mistake too soon is brought to light , 17.
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... seem'd to sicken in his sight . " Oh , speak my love ! " again the maid conjur'd , " Why is thy heart in sullen woe immur'd ? " He rais'd his head , and thrice essay'd to tell , " Thrice from his lips the unfinish'd accents fell ; When ...
... seem'd to sicken in his sight . " Oh , speak my love ! " again the maid conjur'd , " Why is thy heart in sullen woe immur'd ? " He rais'd his head , and thrice essay'd to tell , " Thrice from his lips the unfinish'd accents fell ; When ...
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... Seem'd bursting from her head . But now a pale blue light she saw , It from a distance came , She followed , till upon her sight , Burst full a flood of flame . She stood appall'd ; yet still the charm Upheld her sinking soul , Yet each ...
... Seem'd bursting from her head . But now a pale blue light she saw , It from a distance came , She followed , till upon her sight , Burst full a flood of flame . She stood appall'd ; yet still the charm Upheld her sinking soul , Yet each ...
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... seem so small , I've friends and ' twill contain them all ; And should it e'er become so cold That these , it will no longer hold , No more may heaven her blessings give , I shall not then be fit to live . TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE . MILD ...
... seem so small , I've friends and ' twill contain them all ; And should it e'er become so cold That these , it will no longer hold , No more may heaven her blessings give , I shall not then be fit to live . TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE . MILD ...
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... Seems to repeat the year's funereal dirge . Now Autumn sickens on the languid sight , And leaving leaves bestrew the wanderer's way , Now unto thee , pale arbitress of night , With double joy my homage do I pay . When clouds disguise ...
... Seems to repeat the year's funereal dirge . Now Autumn sickens on the languid sight , And leaving leaves bestrew the wanderer's way , Now unto thee , pale arbitress of night , With double joy my homage do I pay . When clouds disguise ...
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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.