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... sound - it is the church - bell pealing ' one . ' Strangely through the sere elm forests come the fitful gusts of wind , Strangely on the casement beats the hollow drifting rain behind ; Night broods round , a wall of darkness , such as ...
... sound - it is the church - bell pealing ' one . ' Strangely through the sere elm forests come the fitful gusts of wind , Strangely on the casement beats the hollow drifting rain behind ; Night broods round , a wall of darkness , such as ...
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... sound Ere earth's links should bind , we whisper'd , those Heaven had already bound . ' Twas a night of clouds and tempests sweeping through the void of black , Every sad blast through the forest given in sadder echoes back , Till they ...
... sound Ere earth's links should bind , we whisper'd , those Heaven had already bound . ' Twas a night of clouds and tempests sweeping through the void of black , Every sad blast through the forest given in sadder echoes back , Till they ...
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... 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 the secrets of night's lonely chime . At her ...
... 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 the secrets of night's lonely chime . At her ...
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... sounds far off , Like waters , or the wail of nations come , From the lone caverns of chill shadowy mountains , In fitful bursts upon the startled ear . All speak of woes and tempests past and coming . Is such the sky that stretches o ...
... sounds far off , Like waters , or the wail of nations come , From the lone caverns of chill shadowy mountains , In fitful bursts upon the startled ear . All speak of woes and tempests past and coming . Is such the sky that stretches o ...
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... sounds of mirth , that came Upon the moaning breezes , ever seem'd To sicken on my weary soul , like things Of little moment to a dying man . Hast thou not often at lone hours of midnight , When the vain troublous world is still , and ...
... sounds of mirth , that came Upon the moaning breezes , ever seem'd To sicken on my weary soul , like things Of little moment to a dying man . Hast thou not often at lone hours of midnight , When the vain troublous world is still , and ...
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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.