Miscellaneous Poems: On Moral and Religious Subjects

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Wm. E. Norman, 1811 - New York (State) - 180 pages

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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 2 - 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 time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act 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, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Page 2 - An act, supplementary to an act, 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, and extending the benefits "thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical "and other prints.
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 34 - O'ER fields of green the flocks are spread, The oak extends its sylvan shade, The root puts forth its tender blade And says 'tis May.
Page 120 - With force as if \vith sudden pounce He'd lighted on a timid hare That fleetly wing'd the nether air. Quick rising up, the sudden blow...
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 112 - JEHOVAH reigns, let Heav'n rejoice, Let Earth her anthems bring ; To him, in one continued voicej, Let all the nations sing.
Page 140 - OH see those fair celestial heights, How bright they shine, how glorious glow, They shine, oh ye who act aright.
Page 171 - liv'ning sighs, As o'er the scented mead he flies ! How sweet to mark, around the vine, The bee collecting...

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