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... pass'd like music's close , Since I witness'd gloom like this , wherein the stoutest heart would melt : Thick close darkness on our eyelids weighing — darkness that is felt . Oh , the memory of that midnight , spectre - like , within me ...
... pass'd like music's close , Since I witness'd gloom like this , wherein the stoutest heart would melt : Thick close darkness on our eyelids weighing — darkness that is felt . Oh , the memory of that midnight , spectre - like , within me ...
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... Passing rainbow gleams have fallen on my spirit - world of strife : For when every fount was wormwood , every star had ceased to shine , It was bliss in dreams to ponder how unlike thy lot to mine . Yet , in childhood , I remember how ...
... Passing rainbow gleams have fallen on my spirit - world of strife : For when every fount was wormwood , every star had ceased to shine , It was bliss in dreams to ponder how unlike thy lot to mine . Yet , in childhood , I remember how ...
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... pass'd one evening by an angel form . She had seen me sadly smile upon some children sporting by , And her heart was touch'd with pity — and a tear came in her eye : And she look'd upon me - spell - bound , I stood still and look'd on ...
... pass'd one evening by an angel form . She had seen me sadly smile upon some children sporting by , And her heart was touch'd with pity — and a tear came in her eye : And she look'd upon me - spell - bound , I stood still and look'd on ...
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And Other Poems Edward Henry Bickersteth. But again she pass'd , and sighing - Jesus , it was all she said . Yet down , down into her heart - depths through bewildering tears I read- " Thou art weary , way - worn , storm - tost - darker ...
And Other Poems Edward Henry Bickersteth. But again she pass'd , and sighing - Jesus , it was all she said . Yet down , down into her heart - depths through bewildering tears I read- " Thou art weary , way - worn , storm - tost - darker ...
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... in an 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.
... in an 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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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.