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... tender years a lover knew , Who seem'd devoid of guile , With heart , as bland as morning dew , Estrang'd from every wile : And oft they wander'd down the maze , Where flow'ry nature spread , And oft they shrunk from idle gaze , Within ...
... tender years a lover knew , Who seem'd devoid of guile , With heart , as bland as morning dew , Estrang'd from every wile : And oft they wander'd down the maze , Where flow'ry nature spread , And oft they shrunk from idle gaze , Within ...
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... Tender as the woodland dove Milder than the ev'ning ray , Lovely as the purest love : Comfort - bearing , soul - delighting , Kind in care and sweet in woe ; Than the morning , more inviting , To the soul that's humbled low : Like the ...
... Tender as the woodland dove Milder than the ev'ning ray , Lovely as the purest love : Comfort - bearing , soul - delighting , Kind in care and sweet in woe ; Than the morning , more inviting , To the soul that's humbled low : Like the ...
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... tender blade And says ' tis May . The garden smiles with various flowr's , Gay mantling round its shading bow'rs , Prepar'd for summer's noontide hours ; All say ' tis May . See yonder cloud in waves descending , Softly amidst the drops ...
... tender blade And says ' tis May . The garden smiles with various flowr's , Gay mantling round its shading bow'rs , Prepar'd for summer's noontide hours ; All say ' tis May . See yonder cloud in waves descending , Softly amidst the drops ...
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... tender mind , Impressions best for good design'd ; That they might happy sail along Amid the various feather'd throng , And sing harmoniously the while , Shunning those dangers that beguile So many from the happy course , By dint of ...
... tender mind , Impressions best for good design'd ; That they might happy sail along Amid the various feather'd throng , And sing harmoniously the while , Shunning those dangers that beguile So many from the happy course , By dint of ...
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... tender as doves : Darker than midnight and bitter it proves : * The Bohan Upas , a tree known ( at least in fable ) for slaying every animal that comes within a short distance of it . Lovely as summer and smiling as spring : Rougher ...
... tender as doves : Darker than midnight and bitter it proves : * The Bohan Upas , a tree known ( at least in fable ) for slaying every animal that comes within a short distance of it . Lovely as summer and smiling as spring : Rougher ...
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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'r give glide glorious glory glow golden bowl grace Greenlanders grove Halleluiahs happy happy band harp haste heart Heav'n Heav'nly Heaven hope horror hung hydra Jehovah JESUS joys of social Lansingburgh light mercy mild mind 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 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 Warbling wave youth zephyr
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Page 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 174 - WHEN Spring begems the dewy scene, How sweet to walk the velvet green, And hear the Zephyr's languid sighs, As o'er the scented mead he flies ! How sweet to mark the pouting vine, Ready to fall in tears of wine ; And with the maid, whose every sigh Is love and bliss, entranced to lie Where the embowering branches meet — Oh ! is not this divinely sweet? ODE XLII.
Page 173 - How I love the festive boy, Tripping wild the dance of joy! How I love the mellow sage, Smiling through the veil of age ! And whene'er this man of years In the dance of joy appears, Age is on his temples hung, But his heart — his heart is young ! ODE XL.
Page 180 - SPIRIT of Love, whose tresses shine Along the breeze, in golden twine ; Come, within a fragrant cloud. Blushing with light, thy votary shroud ; And, on those wings that sparkling play, Waft, oh, waft me hence away ! Love ! my soul is full of thee, Alive to all thy luxury. But she, the nymph for whom I glow, The pretty Lesbian, mocks my woe ; Smiles at the hoar and...
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 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, It not common earthly 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 wingM the nether air.
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 36 - O'ER fields of green the flocks arc spread, The oak extends its sylvan shade, The root puts forth its tender blade And says 'tis May.
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 J PJSSING VESSEL.