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... hour forget . What , if on my holiest moments burst detested thoughts and vile , Like a breath the cloud was scatter'd with the magic of her Soon we parted - but that radiance pass'd not into smile . THE TWO BROTHERS . 17.
... hour forget . What , if on my holiest moments burst detested thoughts and vile , Like a breath the cloud was scatter'd with the magic of her Soon we parted - but that radiance pass'd not into smile . THE TWO BROTHERS . 17.
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... hours , Brother , Wonder then unbars the caverns of her phantom - haunted towers , And we see prophetic visions - but , oh ! never till that time Saw I with my earnest eyes the secrets of night's lonely chime . At her beauty I was ...
... hours , Brother , Wonder then unbars the caverns of her phantom - haunted towers , And we see prophetic visions - but , oh ! never till that time Saw I with my earnest eyes the secrets of night's lonely chime . At her beauty I was ...
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... hours of darkness , yet they wore at last away , And the morning dawn'd , though morning , still to me a midnight day . She was dead , I knew more surely than if I had seen her die , But grief clings to fragile anchors when the storms ...
... hours of darkness , yet they wore at last away , And the morning dawn'd , though morning , still to me a midnight day . She was dead , I knew more surely than if I had seen her die , But grief clings to fragile anchors when the storms ...
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... hours of midnight , When the vain troublous world is still , and thou Art there amidst the universe alone , Alone with visions of the vast unseen , In the stern grandeur of eternal truth Looming around thee , turn'd thy spirit's eye ...
... hours of midnight , When the vain troublous world is still , and thou Art there amidst the universe alone , Alone with visions of the vast unseen , In the stern grandeur of eternal truth Looming around thee , turn'd thy spirit's eye ...
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... hours of those illimitable ages , I heard a hammer strike some viewless sphere ; And straightway through the universe of worlds , In varying number but in tone the same , Peal'd forth the everlasting answer , ' gone . ' And is there ...
... hours of those illimitable ages , I heard a hammer strike some viewless sphere ; And straightway through the universe of worlds , In varying number but in tone the same , Peal'd forth the everlasting answer , ' gone . ' And is there ...
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Page 253 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 294 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.