The Confessions of Cuthburt: A Ballad ; Bunker Hill : a Poem ; Migration : a PoemHilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1827 - 124 pages |
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... sloping to meet your embrace ; To catch but the hem of her robe , Would lighten your steps on the globe ; A rainbow - like softness and grace . LVIII . Her words , living pictures of things , Endowed every object with wings , All seemed ...
... sloping to meet your embrace ; To catch but the hem of her robe , Would lighten your steps on the globe ; A rainbow - like softness and grace . LVIII . Her words , living pictures of things , Endowed every object with wings , All seemed ...
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... Sloping bank , or sunny hill , Where the lambs are wont to bleat , Loves to rest - a mild retreat ! Age must all excess forbear , Joy , tumultuous joy , or care ; Age must not forget to live , By the rules he loves to give ; Not a cloud ...
... Sloping bank , or sunny hill , Where the lambs are wont to bleat , Loves to rest - a mild retreat ! Age must all excess forbear , Joy , tumultuous joy , or care ; Age must not forget to live , By the rules he loves to give ; Not a cloud ...
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... sloping hills beside ; Shaded , near the yellow maize , Battened flocks recumbent gaze , As the western breezes walk O'er the lily's hooded stalk , Softening summer's ardent beam With the scented water's steam ; While in some ...
... sloping hills beside ; Shaded , near the yellow maize , Battened flocks recumbent gaze , As the western breezes walk O'er the lily's hooded stalk , Softening summer's ardent beam With the scented water's steam ; While in some ...
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... up the skies ; While sloping through th ' expanse below , In azure deep , a splendid show , The golden shafted base was spread , Wide o'er the coral's rocky bed , When timid beauty feared to lave Her feet amid th 102 MIGRATION .
... up the skies ; While sloping through th ' expanse below , In azure deep , a splendid show , The golden shafted base was spread , Wide o'er the coral's rocky bed , When timid beauty feared to lave Her feet amid th 102 MIGRATION .
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... sloping hills between , Shone up to heaven a distant scene , Fenced by imperial firs that shook Their fragrance o'er each gushing brook , And , waving , seemed in sport to shake Their branching shadows on the lake , That , far as ...
... sloping hills between , Shone up to heaven a distant scene , Fenced by imperial firs that shook Their fragrance o'er each gushing brook , And , waving , seemed in sport to shake Their branching shadows on the lake , That , far as ...
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Page 89 - ... heart, of my desperate estate, gave me much cause to respect her: I being the first Christian this proud King and his grim attendants ever saw : and thus...
Page 88 - ... having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could...
Page 88 - ... two rowes of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds; but every one with something: and a great chayne of white beads about their necks.
Page 90 - God thus to make her his instrument, or her extraordinary affection to our Nation, I know not: but of this I am sure; when her father with the utmost of his...
Page 89 - ... weapons, when we were at supper. Therefore, if we would live, she wished us presently to be gone. Such things as she delighted in he would...
Page 65 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy : his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul and form All melted into him : they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 87 - At last they brought him to Meronocomoco, where was Powhatan their Emperor. Here more than two hundred of those grim Courtiers stood wondering at him, as he had beene a monster; till Powhatan and his trayne had put themselves in their greatest braveries.
Page 89 - Salvage Courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her owne braines to save mine...
Page 90 - Courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine; and not only that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted to Jamestown: where I found about eight and...
Page 88 - Powhatan; then as many as could laid hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head. And being ready with their clubs to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death.