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... soft assemblage , listen to my song , Which thy own Season paints ; when Nature all Is blooming and benevolent , like thee . And see where surly Winter passes off , Far to the north , and calls his ruffian blasts : His blasts obey , and ...
... soft assemblage , listen to my song , Which thy own Season paints ; when Nature all Is blooming and benevolent , like thee . And see where surly Winter passes off , Far to the north , and calls his ruffian blasts : His blasts obey , and ...
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... and flocks , commixing , played secure . This when , emergent from the gloomy wood , The glaring lion saw , his horrid heart Was meekened , and he joined his sullen joy ; For music held the whole in perfect peace : Soft SPRING . II.
... and flocks , commixing , played secure . This when , emergent from the gloomy wood , The glaring lion saw , his horrid heart Was meekened , and he joined his sullen joy ; For music held the whole in perfect peace : Soft SPRING . II.
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James Thomson William Michael Rossetti. For music held the whole in perfect peace : Soft sighed the flute ; the tender voice was heard , Warbling the varied heart ; the woodlands round . Applied their quire ; and winds and waters flowed ...
James Thomson William Michael Rossetti. For music held the whole in perfect peace : Soft sighed the flute ; the tender voice was heard , Warbling the varied heart ; the woodlands round . Applied their quire ; and winds and waters flowed ...
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... Soft disengage , and back into the stream The speckled infant throw . But should you lure From his dark haunts , beneath the tangled roots Of pendant trees , the monarch of the brook , Behoves you then to ply your finest art . Long time ...
... Soft disengage , and back into the stream The speckled infant throw . But should you lure From his dark haunts , beneath the tangled roots Of pendant trees , the monarch of the brook , Behoves you then to ply your finest art . Long time ...
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... soft air the busy nations fly , Cling to the bud , and with inserted tube Suck its pure essence , its ethereal soul ; And oft , with bolder wing , they soaring dare The purple heath , or where the wild - thyme grows , And yellow load ...
... soft air the busy nations fly , Cling to the bud , and with inserted tube Suck its pure essence , its ethereal soul ; And oft , with bolder wing , they soaring dare The purple heath , or where the wild - thyme grows , And yellow load ...
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amid beam beauty behold beneath blaze blessed bliss bloom breast breath bright Britons Castle of Indolence charms cheerful cloth gilt clouds Commixed dark deep delight E'en earth Edition eternal ether exalted fair fame fancy Fcap fire flame flood gale genius gentle gilt edges gloom glory glow grace Greece groves GUSTAVE DORÉ happy heart heaven hills honour ingulphed JAMES THOMSON labour land Liberty light live mind mingled morocco mountains muse Musidora nature Nature's night nought o'er passions peace plain poem POETICAL pomp pours pride race rage rapture reign rise roll Rome round scene shade shine shore sigh sing smile soft song sons soul spirit spread Spring storm stream swain sweet swelling tempest tender thee thine THOMAS HOOD Thomson thou thought toil train tyrant vale virtue wave whence wild WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI winds wing wintry woods
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Page 88 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Page 319 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 105 - Beyond the pomp of dress : for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most.
Page 42 - With quickened step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn. Blue, through the dust, the smoking currents shine ; And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps, awkward ; while along the forest glade The wild deer trip, and often turning gaze At early passenger. Music awakes, The native voice of undissembled joy; And thick around the woodland hymns arise.
Page 319 - It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground; And there a season atween June and May, Half...
Page 3 - To shake the sounding marsh; or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him. Then no more Th...
Page 365 - Ah! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, " When drooping health and spirits go amiss? " How tasteless then whatever can be given! " Health is the vital principle of bliss,
Page 155 - What water, of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils. These check his fearful steps; and down he sinks, Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death; Mixed with the tender anguish Nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th...
Page 9 - Amid the glad creation, musing praise, And looking lively gratitude. At last, The clouds consign their treasures to the fields) And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the umbrageous multitude of leaves. But who can hold the shade, while Heaven descends In universal bounty, shedding herbs, And fruits, and flowers,...
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