The Wizard of the North: The Vampire Bride, and Other Poems

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W. Blackwood, 1833 - 92 pages
 

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Page 4 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
Page 28 - extended, and his ring gone. He dissembled the loss, and returned to his wife; but whenever he attempted to embrace her, he found himself prevented by something dark and dense, which was tangible though not visible, interposing between them, and he heard a voice saying, " Embrace me! for I am Venus, whom this day you wedded, and I will not restore your ring.
Page 69 - keen and watchful foe. But Daedalus presumed to try New paths along the azure sky, * On wings to man denied; The labour of Alcmena's son Burst through the gates of Acheron, And
Page 69 - the Stygian tide. How shall the Thunderer sleep ? or how Relax the terrors of his brow ? Nought seems impossible to Man ! We climb high Heaven itself, and scan With bold
Page 67 - through nightly mist that blinds To mortal ken each friendly star, The pilot's beacon from afar, Arcturus or the Pleiades.— Him could no forms of death affright,
Page 87 - bird ! that on the mountain's peak, Reposing in the sun thy mighty pinions, Look'st from thy throne of clouds o'er cliff and creek, Or with expanded plumes and sharpen'd beak, Rangest at will thy undisturb'd dominions, Majestic monarch of the sky ! How mean appears man's destiny, When, sailing in the blue profound, Thou
Page 66 - From fading eve to rosy morn! And thee, the King of Tempests guard From sunken rock, and breaking wave, (All winds, save Zephyr, being
Page 67 - His breast was surely fortified With triple bars of oak and brass, Who first upon the stormy tide Ventured his fragile bark to guide, And dared the distant main to pass;
Page 68 - In vain hath God's all-wise decree Cleft the broad earth with trackless sea, If ships, in bold defiance driven, Cross the dread gulf
Page 68 - conspire To vex the sorrowing Earth; And Death, whose step was mercifully slow, Now dogs our daily

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