The Poetical Works of William Collins,: Enriched with Elegant Engravings. : To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author by Dr. Johnson |
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Abra lov'd AGIB allegorical imagery ancient ANTISTROPHE bard beautiful blank verse blest boast breathe charm Circassia Collins CYMBELINE delight dewy dreary drest Druid dwell E'en epithalamium eyes fair fairy Fancy fate Fear flowers Gardiner genius Georgian maid golden hair Greece grief grove hand happy harmony Hassan hear heart heaven Hebrides hour isle Jocasta lyric magic maid like Abra midst mind moral mountains mourn murmurs Muse myrtles native nature ne'er numbers Nymph o'er ODE TO MERCY ORIENTAL ECLOGUES passions pastoral Pity plains poems poet poet's poetical pour'd rage reign round rove rural scene Schiraz sentiment shade shepherds shore sighs simplicity SIR THOMAS HANMER song sons of soul Sophocles sounds springs strain sullen sung swain sweet tears tender thee Theocritus thou thought toil truth vale verse virtue voice of peace watchet western isle wild wizzard εν
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Page 83 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Page 163 - Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene; Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams.
Page 86 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round: Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Page 84 - ... sword in thunder down; And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe! And ever and anon he beat...
Page 100 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No withered witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew!
Page 10 - With desperate sorrow wild, the affrighted man Thrice sigh'd; thrice struck his breaft; and thus began: " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Schiraz
Page 102 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Page 10 - And his light scrip contain'da scanty store ; A fan of painted feathers in his hand, To guard his shaded face from scorching sand. The sultry sun had...
Page v - He published proposals for a History of the Revival of Learning; and I have heard him speak with great kindness of Leo the Tenth, and with keen resentment of his tasteless successor. But probably not a page of his history was ever written.
Page xi - ... there was then nothing of disorder discernible in his mind by any but himself; but he had withdrawn from study, and travelled with no other book than an English Testament, such as children carry to the school: when his friend took it into his hand, out of curiosity to see what companion a man of letters had chosen, ' I have but one book,' said Collins,