Miscellaneous Poems: On Moral and Religious Subjects |
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... hung to view , ( Believe or not my story true ) A web , by spider , long employ'd In arts , that plenteously destroy'd The little host of wand'ring flies , Unheeding , and too sure unwise . This web the same in texture made , With those ...
... hung to view , ( Believe or not my story true ) A web , by spider , long employ'd In arts , that plenteously destroy'd The little host of wand'ring flies , Unheeding , and too sure unwise . This web the same in texture made , With those ...
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... hung , and glisten'd in the beam . A Fly , of days a few advanc'd , Beyond the youthful giddy dance , Where want of years so often slips , And self - importance always trips , Was trav'lling , like full many a wight , In search of ...
... hung , and glisten'd in the beam . A Fly , of days a few advanc'd , Beyond the youthful giddy dance , Where want of years so often slips , And self - importance always trips , Was trav'lling , like full many a wight , In search of ...
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... ken of the spirits that fly , In the blaze of the torridal storm . In the center was placed a couch , whose extent Would cover some worlds thinly spread : Above , hung a myriad of Suns , with intent POEMS BY OSANDER . The Comet's Palace,
... ken of the spirits that fly , In the blaze of the torridal storm . In the center was placed a couch , whose extent Would cover some worlds thinly spread : Above , hung a myriad of Suns , with intent POEMS BY OSANDER . The Comet's Palace,
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... Hung pending from roof to the floor : The tops of platina - my fancy it tames , To tell of the parts that were lower . But I will not be beaten - They're fashion'd of hearts , Collected from worlds that are gone , O'er which black ...
... Hung pending from roof to the floor : The tops of platina - my fancy it tames , To tell of the parts that were lower . But I will not be beaten - They're fashion'd of hearts , Collected from worlds that are gone , O'er which black ...
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... hung from the arch through the Suns , Colonnading the dwelling around , Sunk each in a billow of tempests and storms , Such as roar under Etnean ground . From one to another the distance was vast , Where Planets in numbers might lie ...
... hung from the arch through the Suns , Colonnading the dwelling around , Sunk each in a billow of tempests and storms , Such as roar under Etnean ground . From one to another the distance was vast , Where Planets in numbers might lie ...
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azure balm band beam beauteous blessings bliss bosom breath breeze bright Cæsar celestial Chaos cherub Comet dar'd dark dear death delight dire dwells earth ev'ning fear float flow flow'd give glide glorious glory glow golden bowl Greenlanders grove Halleluiahs happy happy band harp haste heart Heav'nly Heaven hope horror hung hydra Jehovah JESUS joys of social Lansingburgh light mercy mild mind monster morning mortal murmur nigh night o'er OSANDER pain pass'd passion peace pleasure pow'r praise pray'r pure rais'd rapture rich rill rise roll round rove SAMUEL BLATCHFORD Satan Saviour scene seem'd seraph shed shine sing skies smile soft softly song soon soul storm sweet sweetly swell syren tear tempests tender thee thou thought thro throne treasure trembling twas Twill shew vile vision wander'd Warbling wave youth zephyrs
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Page 2 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
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Page 30 - Lost in clouds, in tempests tost,'" Anxious hopes some friendly coast, Which shall calm and shelter give, Where he peacefully may live : But the coast that I have found, Is not common eartlily ground ; His is mortal, mine's eternal, His is barren, mine is Heaven?
Page 124 - Perchanc'd against a rock to bounce With force as if with sudden pounce He'd lighted on a timid hare That fleetly wing'd the nether air. Quick rising up, the sudden blow...
Page 15 - tis the ruler of the hosts on high : Some trivial exercise of power divine, For purposes — to him best known — but wise, For wisdom is the daughter of Divinity.
Page 36 - O'ER fields of green the flocks are spread, The oak extends its sylvan shade, The root puts forth its tender blade And says 'tis May.
Page 175 - The bee collecting honied wine ; And with a friend, whose every sigh Is wing'd for Heaven, low to lie Where we may with JESUS meet — Oh ! is not this divinely sweet ? XLJII.
Page 15 - See it blackens ! Clouds roll in dark magnificence, And Gothick grandeur mounts— — As if some spirit, from the nether dell Of Chaos, having torn the volving fragments...
Page 144 - OH see those fair celestial heights, How bright they shine, how glorious glow, They shine, oh ye who act aright, They glow, oh Christians, but for you ! OJV SEEING A PJSSWG VESSEL.
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