Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 3Harrison and Company, 1782 - English poetry |
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... dreadful thunder - clap on high , And rais'd a roaring elemental war Betwixt the fea - green waves and azure sky . Then , like Heav'n's mild ambaffador of love To man repentant , bade the tumult cease ; Smooth'd the blue bofom of the ...
... dreadful thunder - clap on high , And rais'd a roaring elemental war Betwixt the fea - green waves and azure sky . Then , like Heav'n's mild ambaffador of love To man repentant , bade the tumult cease ; Smooth'd the blue bofom of the ...
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... Left reafon from the helm should start , And lawless fury rule my heart ; Left madness all my foul fubdue , To afk her Maker , What doft thou ? ' Yet Yet couldst thou , in that dreadful hour , On BEAUTIES OF POETRY . 63.
... Left reafon from the helm should start , And lawless fury rule my heart ; Left madness all my foul fubdue , To afk her Maker , What doft thou ? ' Yet Yet couldst thou , in that dreadful hour , On BEAUTIES OF POETRY . 63.
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Yet couldst thou , in that dreadful hour , On my rack'd foul all Lethe pour ; Or fan me with the gelid breeze , That chains in ice th ' indignant feas ; Or wrap my heart in ten - fold steel ; I still am man , and ftill muft feel . I ...
Yet couldst thou , in that dreadful hour , On my rack'd foul all Lethe pour ; Or fan me with the gelid breeze , That chains in ice th ' indignant feas ; Or wrap my heart in ten - fold steel ; I still am man , and ftill muft feel . I ...
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... dreadful rage the combat burns , The captains fhout amain ; And Elmer's tall victorious fpear Far glances o'er the plain . To ftop it's course young Hengift flew Like lightning o'er the field ; And foon his eyes the well - known cross ...
... dreadful rage the combat burns , The captains fhout amain ; And Elmer's tall victorious fpear Far glances o'er the plain . To ftop it's course young Hengift flew Like lightning o'er the field ; And foon his eyes the well - known cross ...
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... dreadful found ; In vain the Bard defcribes it in his lay : Fancy muft picture to the guests around , The conflict dirę , and horrors of that day , The conscious fun , beneath the western sky , All fadly red , forfook the bloody plain ...
... dreadful found ; In vain the Bard defcribes it in his lay : Fancy muft picture to the guests around , The conflict dirę , and horrors of that day , The conscious fun , beneath the western sky , All fadly red , forfook the bloody plain ...
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Page 381 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 111 - As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Page 21 - Shall through the gloomy vale attend, And cheer our dying breath ; Shall, when all other comforts cease, .Like a kind angel whisper peace, And smooth the bed of death.
Page 86 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring...
Page 33 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 86 - No more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit, they linger yet, Avengers of their native land ; With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
Page 33 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 201 - In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts. And wins (oh shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook, A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look; She sees, and trembles at th
Page 382 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 201 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...