Poems ...W. Scott, 1885 - 334 pages |
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Page 66
... earth , Pants for the place of her ethereal birth , On steady wings sails through th ' immense abyss , Plucks amaranthine joys from bow'rs of bliss , And crowns the soul , while yet a mourner here , With wreaths like those triumphant ...
... earth , Pants for the place of her ethereal birth , On steady wings sails through th ' immense abyss , Plucks amaranthine joys from bow'rs of bliss , And crowns the soul , while yet a mourner here , With wreaths like those triumphant ...
Page 151
... earth resulting as it ought To earth's acknowledged sov'reign , finds at once Its only just proprietor in Him . The soul that sees him , or receives sublimed New faculties , or learns at least t'employ More worthily the pow'rs she own'd ...
... earth resulting as it ought To earth's acknowledged sov'reign , finds at once Its only just proprietor in Him . The soul that sees him , or receives sublimed New faculties , or learns at least t'employ More worthily the pow'rs she own'd ...
Page 291
... earth , a swain With much hard labour in thy service worn ! He set the vines that clothe yon ample plain , And he these olives that the vale adorn . He fill'd with grain the glebe ; the rills he led Through this green herbage , and ...
... earth , a swain With much hard labour in thy service worn ! He set the vines that clothe yon ample plain , And he these olives that the vale adorn . He fill'd with grain the glebe ; the rills he led Through this green herbage , and ...
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On a Plant of VirginsBower | 6 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE | 7 |
To my Cousin | 31 |
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