The Omnipotence of the Deity, and Other Poems. Second EditionSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1843 - 200 pages |
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Almighty angels art thou awake beam beauteous beauty beneath betimes blast blaze bliss blood divine bloom bosom braided stream breast breath breeze bright brooklets brow bursting cheer Cherubim clouds dark death deep didst divine dread DUDLEY CASTLE e'er earth earthless Ephraths eternal feel flower foam fond heart gladsome gloom glory Godhead's grave grove harp hath heaven heavenly holy hour life's light lov'd lyre melancholy mighty murmuring ne'er neath night o'er Omnipotence pensive praise pure raptur'd rapture reign rill roll rude scenes seraphic Seraphim shade shine sigh silvery sing skies smile song sorrow soul sparkling spirit storms STOURBRIDGE strains streams sweet sweetly swell tears thee thine thou thought thrilling thro throne thunder thy blest thy power tomb tree trembling victim band voice wake wave ween weep wings woke Wombourne youthful zephyrs
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Page 12 - Lo, these are parts of his ways ; but how little a portion is heard of him ? but the thunder of his power who can understand ? — Job xxvi.
Page 48 - From first to last, this ray of sacred light, This lamp, from off the everlasting throne, Mercy took down, and, in the night of Time Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow; And evermore beseeching men, with tears And earnest sighs, to read, believe, and live.
Page 41 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 85 - Stern Desolation sways his sceptre here, And gloomy Silence pays him anxious court ! Where are the brave, the beautiful, the young, Who whilom thro...
Page 85 - Time soon his hand will spread ; And like the fading tints of evening skies, So will ye fade, for ever fade away ! H MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.