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... tempest - kind ; All my spirit's dark foundations heaved like waves beneath the wind . Often did I wrench the thought from out my bosom's core and cry , Never should my cloud - tost being cross that blue trans- parent sky . But again ...
... tempest - kind ; All my spirit's dark foundations heaved like waves beneath the wind . Often did I wrench the thought from out my bosom's core and cry , Never should my cloud - tost being cross that blue trans- parent sky . But again ...
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... tempest shook the prophet's soul , And trembling seized him past control . Not the march through far - off lands , Not the blasts of desert sands , Not the taunts and proud despite Of the godless Ninevite , Not the wrathful threatenings ...
... tempest shook the prophet's soul , And trembling seized him past control . Not the march through far - off lands , Not the blasts of desert sands , Not the taunts and proud despite Of the godless Ninevite , Not the wrathful threatenings ...
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... tempest on the waters : see , they rise Faster and fiercer round that little bark ! Her mariners with agonizing cries Betake them to their gods for aid , but dark Still lay the tempest on the waters : dark Grew every face , and darker ...
... tempest on the waters : see , they rise Faster and fiercer round that little bark ! Her mariners with agonizing cries Betake them to their gods for aid , but dark Still lay the tempest on the waters : dark Grew every face , and darker ...
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... tempest - shatter'd ship , And that unheard - of miracle , that bore The Prophet Jonah to his destined shore . Long while he grappled with his fears , and then Look'd round his court in marvel ; and again He gazed upon those floods of ...
... tempest - shatter'd ship , And that unheard - of miracle , that bore The Prophet Jonah to his destined shore . Long while he grappled with his fears , and then Look'd round his court in marvel ; and again He gazed upon those floods of ...
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... tempest lay From off the skirts of her horizon driven , But ready to descend with baleful sway The moment God announced her fatal judgment - day . XXI . Have ye exhausted all the mines of Ind ? Have Egypt's dark - brow'd captives all ...
... tempest lay From off the skirts of her horizon driven , But ready to descend with baleful sway The moment God announced her fatal judgment - day . XXI . Have ye exhausted all the mines of Ind ? Have Egypt's dark - brow'd captives all ...
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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.