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Page 113 - Now shield with shield, with helmet helmet clos'd, To armour armour, lance to lance oppos'd, Host against host with shadowy squadrons drew, The sounding darts in iron tempests flew, Victors and vanquish'd join'd promiscuous cries, And shrilling shouts and dying groans arise; With streaming blood the slippery fields are And slaughter'd heroes swell the dreadful tide.
Page 129 - Expands an everlasting shade. O ye inhabitants, that dwell Each forgotten in your cell, O say, for whom of human race Has Fate decreed this hiding place ? And hark ! methinks a spirit calls, Low winds the whisper round the walls, A voice, the sluggish air that breaks, Solemn amid the silence speaks. Mistaken man, thou seek'st to know What known will but afflict with woe ; There thy Monimia shall abide, With the pale bridegroom rest a bride, The wan assistants there shall lay, In weeds of death, her...
Page 130 - The wheels of time, that roll the hour. Yet, ah ! why swells my breast with fears ? Why start the interdicted tears ? Love, dost thou tempt again ? depart, Thou devil, cast out from my heart. Sad I forsook the feast, the ball, The sunny bower and lofty hall, And sought the dungeon of despair; Yet thou overtakes! me there. How little dreamed I thee to find In this lone state of human kind ! Nor melancholy can prevail, The direful deed, nor dismal tale.
Page 56 - Well pleas'd the matron set to show Her mistress-work, on earth below. Then fruitless knowledge turn aside, What other art remains untried This load of anguish to remove, And heal the cruel wounds of love ? To friendship's sacred force apply, That source of tenderness and joy ; A joy no anxious fears profane, A tenderness that feels no pain : Friendship shall all these ills appease, And give the tortur'd mourner ease. Th...
Page 64 - O VOICE divine, whose heavenly strain No mortal measure may attain, O powerful to appease the smart, That festers in a...
Page 128 - I fear, its human love. Alas ! the noble strife is o'er, The blissful Visions charm no more ; Far off the glorious rapture flown, MONIMIA rages here alone. In vain, Love's fugitive, I try From the commanding pow'r to fly, Tho' Grace was dawning on my soul, Possest by heav'n sincere and whole.
Page 65 - Thro' the long deep'ning solemn grove, Or underneath the moonlight pale, To Silence trust some plaintive tale, Of nature's ills, and mankind's woes, While kings and all the proud repose ; Or where some holy, aged oak, A stranger to the woodman's stroke, From the high rock's aerial crown, In twisting arches bending down, Bathes in the smooth pellucid stream, Full oft he waits the mystic dream Of mankind's joys right understood, And of the all-prevailing good.
Page 56 - Till the next morn estranges quite The partners of one guilty night; But such as judgment long has weigh'd And years of faithfulness have tried ; Whose tender mind is fram'd to share The equal portion of my care ; Whose thoughts my happiness employs Sincere, who triumphs in my joys ; With whom in raptures I may stray Through study's long and pathless way, Obscurely blest, in joys, alone, To the excluded world unknown.
Page 130 - O heaven, thy will be done ! The best physician here I find, To cure a sore diseased mind, For soon this venerable gloom Will yield a weary sufferer room; No more a slave to love decreed — At ease and free among the dead. Come then, ye tears, ne'er cease to flow In full satiety of woe : Though now the maid my heart alarms, Severe and mighty in her charms, Doomed to obey, in bondage prest...
Page 62 - ... bustling race employs, His cares, his hopes, his fears, his joys, Ambition, pleasure, interest, fame, Each nothing of important name ; Ye tyrants of this restless ball This grove annihilates you all. Oh power unseen, yet felt, appear! Sure something more than Nature's here. Now on the...