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... wild eloquence , And a strange sweet music o'er us comes , we know not , heed not , whence , - From the skies , or from the falling of melodious drops of foam , Or from deeper spirit - fountains welling in our spirit - home . Few ...
... wild eloquence , And a strange sweet music o'er us comes , we know not , heed not , whence , - From the skies , or from the falling of melodious drops of foam , Or from deeper spirit - fountains welling in our spirit - home . Few ...
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... wild entrance there . Day by day the spirit finding eagle strength within its wings , Proudly tracking truth and beauty there ' mid everlasting things ; Never pausing , resting never on its flight intensely keen , Deeming it would touch ...
... wild entrance there . Day by day the spirit finding eagle strength within its wings , Proudly tracking truth and beauty there ' mid everlasting things ; Never pausing , resting never on its flight intensely keen , Deeming it would touch ...
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... 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 enjoyment in the haunts of sin and · shame ; - 2 ...
... 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 enjoyment in the haunts of sin and · shame ; - 2 ...
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... wild night - mare visions broke upon the 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 ...
... wild night - mare visions broke upon the 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 ...
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... wild troubled waters of my spirit's solitude , I should turn and bless the angel who had shown that light divine ? Blessing , see her - seeing , love her - win and bind her heart to mine ? Shall I tell thee of the beauty of her sylph ...
... wild troubled waters of my spirit's solitude , I should turn and bless the angel who had shown that light divine ? Blessing , see her - seeing , love her - win and bind her heart to mine ? Shall I tell thee of the beauty of her sylph ...
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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.