English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 21870 |
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... thee tell 100 His generation , and the rising birth Of Nature from the unapparent Deep : Or if the star of evening and the moon Haste to thy audience , Night with her will bring Silence , and Sleep listning to thee will watch , Or we ...
... thee tell 100 His generation , and the rising birth Of Nature from the unapparent Deep : Or if the star of evening and the moon Haste to thy audience , Night with her will bring Silence , and Sleep listning to thee will watch , Or we ...
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... thee This I perform , speak thou , and be it done : My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee I send along , ride forth , and bid the Deep Within appointed bounds be heav'n and earth ; Boundless the Deep , because I am who fill ...
... thee This I perform , speak thou , and be it done : My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee I send along , ride forth , and bid the Deep Within appointed bounds be heav'n and earth ; Boundless the Deep , because I am who fill ...
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... thee repeated ; nor unknown The serpent , subtl'st beast of all the field , 495 Of huge extent sometimes , with brazen eyes And hairy mane terrific , though to thee Not noxious , but obedient at thy call . ' Now Heav'n in all her glory ...
... thee repeated ; nor unknown The serpent , subtl'st beast of all the field , 495 Of huge extent sometimes , with brazen eyes And hairy mane terrific , though to thee Not noxious , but obedient at thy call . ' Now Heav'n in all her glory ...
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... thee , Adam , thee O Man ! Dust of the ground , and in thy nostrils breath'd The breath of life ; in his own image he Created thee , in the image of God Express , and thou becam'st a living soul , Male he created thee , but thy consort ...
... thee , Adam , thee O Man ! Dust of the ground , and in thy nostrils breath'd The breath of life ; in his own image he Created thee , in the image of God Express , and thou becam'st a living soul , Male he created thee , but thy consort ...
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... thee or tongue Relate thee ? greater now in thy return Than from the giant angels ; thee that day 605 Thy thunders magnifi'd ; but to create Is greater than created to destroy . Who can impair thee , mighty King , or bound Thy empire ...
... thee or tongue Relate thee ? greater now in thy return Than from the giant angels ; thee that day 605 Thy thunders magnifi'd ; but to create Is greater than created to destroy . Who can impair thee , mighty King , or bound Thy empire ...
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Page 60 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 4 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 207 - Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease, • Ease to the body some, none to the mind From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging, and present Times past, what once I was, and what am now.
Page 318 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 210 - And buried ; but, O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave ; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 16 - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief •Of all his works : therefore the omnipotent Eternal Father, for where is not he Present?
Page 207 - A LITTLE onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade. There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily...
Page 208 - Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt Divine prediction...
Page 35 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 142 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...