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Page xi
... Hope on the Mind . ......... . 215 Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement .. 217 To a Tuft of early Violets 219 Written two years after the preceding . 220 The Progress of Life . Life ..... 221 The Butterfly's Birth - Day ...
... Hope on the Mind . ......... . 215 Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement .. 217 To a Tuft of early Violets 219 Written two years after the preceding . 220 The Progress of Life . Life ..... 221 The Butterfly's Birth - Day ...
Page 16
... hope , Thou hovering angel , girt with golden wings , And thou , unblemish'd form of chastity ; I see ye visibly , and now believe That he , the Supreme Good , t ' whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance , Would ...
... hope , Thou hovering angel , girt with golden wings , And thou , unblemish'd form of chastity ; I see ye visibly , and now believe That he , the Supreme Good , t ' whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance , Would ...
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... hope on earth , without thyself ; Thou art lovelier now than if thy yielding soul Had smiled on me a passionate consent . Go ; for I see thy parting homeward look , Go in thy beauty ! like a setting star , The last in all the thick and ...
... hope on earth , without thyself ; Thou art lovelier now than if thy yielding soul Had smiled on me a passionate consent . Go ; for I see thy parting homeward look , Go in thy beauty ! like a setting star , The last in all the thick and ...
Page 42
... hope , in life's delicious spring , A radiant creature of the earth , just bursting on the wing ; Elate and joyous as the lark when first it soars on high , Without a shadow in its path , -a cloud upon its sky . I see her yet - so fancy ...
... hope , in life's delicious spring , A radiant creature of the earth , just bursting on the wing ; Elate and joyous as the lark when first it soars on high , Without a shadow in its path , -a cloud upon its sky . I see her yet - so fancy ...
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... hope and change ! MISS BAILLIE . POETRY THE world is full of Poetry - the air Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies , And sparkle in its brightness . Earth is veil'd And mantled with its beauty ...
... hope and change ! MISS BAILLIE . POETRY THE world is full of Poetry - the air Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies , And sparkle in its brightness . Earth is veil'd And mantled with its beauty ...
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