Desultory Thoughts in London: Titus and Gisippus, with Other PoemsC. and H. Baldwyn, 1821 - 251 pages |
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... truth , if ever the requirement O'th ' Seasons ' Poet form'd a household stock , Love , friendship , leisure's free arbitrement Of occupation , they to them seem'd given- " Progressive virtue , and approving heaven . " — 6 . But he was ...
... truth , if ever the requirement O'th ' Seasons ' Poet form'd a household stock , Love , friendship , leisure's free arbitrement Of occupation , they to them seem'd given- " Progressive virtue , and approving heaven . " — 6 . But he was ...
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... Truth is scarce definite enough for awe , 40 . For those who have not , by a mystic love , A complete vict'ry o'er their senses won : What would I not have given , did fate approve , When great Jehovah to King David's son Divulg'd his ...
... Truth is scarce definite enough for awe , 40 . For those who have not , by a mystic love , A complete vict'ry o'er their senses won : What would I not have given , did fate approve , When great Jehovah to King David's son Divulg'd his ...
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... truths , they render'd back again . The more we practise good unconsciously , More certainly its record is on high . 72 . Weak is my strain , yet weak is not my thought , When on that wealth I muse in lonely hour , Which flow'd like ...
... truths , they render'd back again . The more we practise good unconsciously , More certainly its record is on high . 72 . Weak is my strain , yet weak is not my thought , When on that wealth I muse in lonely hour , Which flow'd like ...
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... truth to arraign ) Thee , as though nothing I had since forgot , To paint as once I knew thee , when the train Of fairy pleasures to my path yet clung : Thee , had I chaunted , as I found when young . 81 . No ! Those who most have seen ...
... truth to arraign ) Thee , as though nothing I had since forgot , To paint as once I knew thee , when the train Of fairy pleasures to my path yet clung : Thee , had I chaunted , as I found when young . 81 . No ! Those who most have seen ...
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... truth sublimes ; That self - renouncing energy , which liv'd In Greece and Rome , ere they from vanquish'd climes Had their enervating delights receiv'd . Their poorest Freedman , if high - hearted , then , Was consecrated by his ...
... truth sublimes ; That self - renouncing energy , which liv'd In Greece and Rome , ere they from vanquish'd climes Had their enervating delights receiv'd . Their poorest Freedman , if high - hearted , then , Was consecrated by his ...
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agony art thou Athens aught Behold beneath bless bless'd bliss bloom Boccacio bosom bowers breast breath breeze cause CHARLES LLOYD charms Croesus dear deed deep dost doth dream dropping theories duty and desire dwell e'en e'er earth endued exquisite faith fascinating song fate faultering fear feel felt flowers forms fragrance Frank converse Gisippus grace hath haunt heart heaven honour hope hour human illegitimacies Imagination immortal knew Lesbia life's lips lofty lov'd maid man's mind mortal muse mystery Nature's ne'er neath never night o'er once passion path pleasure poor praise press'd rapture Religion rich scene seem'd sense shew shrink smile solitude Sophronia sorrows soul spirit steal stream sublime sway sweet tears thee theme thence things Thou art thou hast thought Titus treasure triumph truth twas Twixt twould voice whate'er whence youth
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Page 9 - What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction...
Page 72 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page vii - Si je veux peindre le printemps, il faut que je sois en hiver; si je veux décrire un beau paysage, il faut que je sois dans des murs; et j'ai dit cent fois que si jamais j'étais mis à la Bastille, j'y ferais le tableau de la liberté.
Page 18 - Oh [Lamb], thou art a mystery to me! Thou art so prudent, and so mad with wildness, Thou art a source of everlasting glee ! Yet desolation of the very childless Has been thy lot! Never in one like thee Did I see worth majestic from its mildness ; So far, in thee, from being an annoyance E'en to the vicious, 'tis a source of joyance.
Page 186 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where he vital breathes, there must be joy.
Page 24 - No ! with magnanimous self-sacrifice, And lofty inadvertency of fame, He felt there is a bliss in being wise, Quite independent of the wise man's name. Who now can say how many a soul may rise To a nobility of moral aim It ne'er had known, but for that spirit brave, Which, being freely gifted, freely gave ? 69.
Page 180 - Calm, though impassion'd ! durable, though keen! It is all fresh like the young Spring's first green ! Children seem spirits from above descended, To whom still cleaves Heaven's atmosphere serene ; Their very wildnesses with truth are blended : Fresh from their skiey mould, they cannot be amended!
Page 24 - ... magnanimous self-sacrifice, And lofty inadvertency of fame, He felt there is a bliss in being wise, Quite independent of the wise man's name. Who now can say how many a soul may rise To a nobility of moral aim It ne'er had known, but for that spirit brave, Which, being freely gifted, freely gave ? Sometimes I think that I'ma blossom blighted ; But this I ken, that should it not prove so, If I am not inexorably spited Of all that dignifies mankind below ; By him I speak of, I was so excited, While...
Page 185 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Page 23 - I — ungifted with a strain Fit to arrest the ear of him who knows To build such verse as Seraphim might deign To listen to, nor break the deep repose Of those immortal ardours that inspire Spirit of the inextinguishable fire — How shall I fitly speak on such a theme ? He is a treasure by the world neglected, Because he hath not, with a prescience dim, Like those whose every aim is...