Poetical works, with a life of the author (abridged from W. Howitt).Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1859 |
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... light 206 Though the last Glimpse of Erin with Sorrow I see Rich and rare were the Gems she wore 207 207 As a Beam o'er the Face of the Waters may glow The Meeting of the Waters St. Senanus and the Lady How dear to me the Hour Take back ...
... light 206 Though the last Glimpse of Erin with Sorrow I see Rich and rare were the Gems she wore 207 207 As a Beam o'er the Face of the Waters may glow The Meeting of the Waters St. Senanus and the Lady How dear to me the Hour Take back ...
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... Light sounds the Harp Couldst thou look as dear Oh ! soon return Love's light Summer - Cloud When ' midst the Gay I meet When twilight Dews The young Rose . • Duet . Love , my Mary , dwells with thee The Song of War Here's the Bower A ...
... Light sounds the Harp Couldst thou look as dear Oh ! soon return Love's light Summer - Cloud When ' midst the Gay I meet When twilight Dews The young Rose . • Duet . Love , my Mary , dwells with thee The Song of War Here's the Bower A ...
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... light , Burnish'd as the ivory bright . Let her eyebrows sweetly rise In jetty arches o'er her eyes , Gently in a crescent gliding , Just commingling , just dividing . But hast thou any sparkles warm , The lightning of her eyes to form ...
... light , Burnish'd as the ivory bright . Let her eyebrows sweetly rise In jetty arches o'er her eyes , Gently in a crescent gliding , Just commingling , just dividing . But hast thou any sparkles warm , The lightning of her eyes to form ...
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... light . " He took the shaft - and oh ! thy look , Sweet Venus ! when the shaft he took- He sigh'd , and felt the urchin's art ; He sigh'd , in agony of heart , - " It is not light - I die with pain ! Take - take thy arrow back again ...
... light . " He took the shaft - and oh ! thy look , Sweet Venus ! when the shaft he took- He sigh'd , and felt the urchin's art ; He sigh'd , in agony of heart , - " It is not light - I die with pain ! Take - take thy arrow back again ...
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... light of gold can ne'er illume The dreary midnight of the tomb ! And why should I then pant for treasures ? Mine be the brilliant round of pleasures ; The goblet rich , the board of friends , Whose flowing souls the goblet blends ! Mine ...
... light of gold can ne'er illume The dreary midnight of the tomb ! And why should I then pant for treasures ? Mine be the brilliant round of pleasures ; The goblet rich , the board of friends , Whose flowing souls the goblet blends ! Mine ...
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Page 238 - Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories...
Page 264 - When youthful spring around us breathes, Thy spirit warms her fragrant sigh ; And every flower the summer wreathes Is born beneath that kindling eye. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Page 206 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page 190 - FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. "Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, 'The rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Page 271 - Praise to the Conqueror, praise to the Lord ! His word was our arrow, his breath was our sword. Who shall return to tell Egypt the story Of those she sent forth in the hour of her pride ? For the Lord hath looked out from his pillar of glory, And all her brave thousands are dashed in the tide. Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea ! Jehovah hath triumphed, — his people are free ! FIFE AND DRUM.
Page 346 - twas a sight, — that heaven, that child, A scene, which might have well beguiled Even haughty Eblis of a sigh For glories lost and peace gone by! And how felt he, the wretched man Reclining there, while memory ran O'er many a year of guilt and strife, — Flew o'er the dark flood of his life, Nor found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace. "There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child!
Page 267 - THE BIRD, LET LOOSE. (AIR. — BEETHOVEN. ) THE bird, let loose in eastern skies,* When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam. But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way.
Page 271 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 241 - Then come o'er the sea, Maiden, with me, Come wherever the wild wind blows ; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes. Was not the sea Made for the Free, Land for courts and chains alone ? Here we are slaves, But, on the waves, Love and liberty 's all our own.
Page 360 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew.