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... calm rapture seizes me , and holds me poised . The same life you have attained in your description of the celestial choirs . It is the music of the soul , when centred in the will of God , thrilled by the love , expanded by the energy ...
... calm rapture seizes me , and holds me poised . The same life you have attained in your description of the celestial choirs . It is the music of the soul , when centred in the will of God , thrilled by the love , expanded by the energy ...
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... calm jus- tice is done ; more , as the son and friend felt , was not needed . And , upon the whole , if filial delicacy has prevented the Life of Sir J. M. from making so brilliant and entertaining a book as it might be in the hands of ...
... calm jus- tice is done ; more , as the son and friend felt , was not needed . And , upon the whole , if filial delicacy has prevented the Life of Sir J. M. from making so brilliant and entertaining a book as it might be in the hands of ...
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... calm hours and untried spirits , but that noble and sincere faith , which might have created beneath the ribs of death what it expected to find there . The trust of one who had tried the kernel , and knew that the tree was an oak ; and ...
... calm hours and untried spirits , but that noble and sincere faith , which might have created beneath the ribs of death what it expected to find there . The trust of one who had tried the kernel , and knew that the tree was an oak ; and ...
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... calm and holy strength of mind , That , like Heaven's image in the smiling brook , Celestial peace was pictured in her look ; Her's was the brow in trials unperplexed , That cheered the sad and tranquillized the vexed ; She studied not ...
... calm and holy strength of mind , That , like Heaven's image in the smiling brook , Celestial peace was pictured in her look ; Her's was the brow in trials unperplexed , That cheered the sad and tranquillized the vexed ; She studied not ...
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... calm but deep and steady sympathy with all that is human ; he is so by his distinguished power of observation ; he is so by his graphic skill . No litera- ture boasts an author more individual than Crabbe . He is unique . Moore ...
... calm but deep and steady sympathy with all that is human ; he is so by his distinguished power of observation ; he is so by his graphic skill . No litera- ture boasts an author more individual than Crabbe . He is unique . Moore ...
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Page 71 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 70 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning « Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Page 72 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view.
Page 37 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 88 - And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are!
Page 40 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace— all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.
Page 87 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Page 20 - Angel's age. God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth ; Engine against th...
Page 75 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 74 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.