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... sleeps ; If I only gaze , it rises dimly from my spirit's deeps- Rises with the sere elm forests struck by fitful gusts of wind , And the hollow drifting raindrops on the casement close behind : Every wind - moan finds an echo in my ...
... sleeps ; If I only gaze , it rises dimly from my spirit's deeps- Rises with the sere elm forests struck by fitful gusts of wind , And the hollow drifting raindrops on the casement close behind : Every wind - moan finds an echo in my ...
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... sleep . But when all without was desert , and wild desert all within , Plunged I with a maniac's madness , down the treacherous gulph of sin . Whilome I had often sneer'd at others from the height of fame , Finding what they deem'd ...
... sleep . But when all without was desert , and wild desert all within , Plunged I with a maniac's madness , down the treacherous gulph of sin . Whilome I had often sneer'd at others from the height of fame , Finding what they deem'd ...
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... sleep I slept : - But at length the spring was heal'd , and gentle tears began to flow , And One whisper'd , " I have suffer'd - I have borne thy load of woe ! " All the fabled lights of Reason seem'd like torch - THE TWO BROTHERS . 15.
... sleep I slept : - But at length the spring was heal'd , and gentle tears began to flow , And One whisper'd , " I have suffer'd - I have borne thy load of woe ! " All the fabled lights of Reason seem'd like torch - THE TWO BROTHERS . 15.
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... Sleep hath eyes - and silence hears strange sounds at midnight 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 ...
... Sleep hath eyes - and silence hears strange sounds at midnight 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 ...
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... sleeping still I heard ; And in my sleep my lips re - echoed ever After that mighty pendulum of Fate Words that it utter'd palpably , -now - then : And then still follow'd now , and still the now Preceded then , eternally the same ...
... sleeping still I heard ; And in my sleep my lips re - echoed ever After that mighty pendulum of Fate Words that it utter'd palpably , -now - then : And then still follow'd now , and still the now Preceded then , eternally the same ...
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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.