Cyclopædia of poetical quotations ... Edited by H. G. AdamsRobert Forrester, 1865 - 16 pages |
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... earth an object worth its care . I never looked a last adieu To things familiar , but my heart Shrunk with a feeling almost pain , E'en from their lifelessness to part . Egone . Crabbe . Prior . Caroline Bowles . Vanish'd , like dew ...
... earth an object worth its care . I never looked a last adieu To things familiar , but my heart Shrunk with a feeling almost pain , E'en from their lifelessness to part . Egone . Crabbe . Prior . Caroline Bowles . Vanish'd , like dew ...
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... earth's great purifier , stirs Our embers into flame ; and that ascends . * * * * * * There is in life no blessing like affection ; It soothes , it hallows , elevates , subdues , And bringeth down to earth its native heaven ; It sits ...
... earth's great purifier , stirs Our embers into flame ; and that ascends . * * * * * * There is in life no blessing like affection ; It soothes , it hallows , elevates , subdues , And bringeth down to earth its native heaven ; It sits ...
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... earth more green- To stand as now - upon the desert sea , Forgetting earth and all that therein lowers ; For then the soul unto eternity Looks , and awhile the better land is ours : But it is otherwise in after years ; The dews that ...
... earth more green- To stand as now - upon the desert sea , Forgetting earth and all that therein lowers ; For then the soul unto eternity Looks , and awhile the better land is ours : But it is otherwise in after years ; The dews that ...
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... earth to glittering gold . Shakspere . O he sits high in all the people's hearts ! And that which would appear offence in us , His countenance , like richest alchemy , Will change to virtue and to worthiness . - Shakspere . Princes do ...
... earth to glittering gold . Shakspere . O he sits high in all the people's hearts ! And that which would appear offence in us , His countenance , like richest alchemy , Will change to virtue and to worthiness . - Shakspere . Princes do ...
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... earth - as I am now . Byron . Alone she sat - alone ! that worn - out word , So idly spoken and so coldly heard ; Yet all that poets sing , and grief hath known , Of hope laid waste , knells in that word - alone ! The New Timon . When ...
... earth - as I am now . Byron . Alone she sat - alone ! that worn - out word , So idly spoken and so coldly heard ; Yet all that poets sing , and grief hath known , Of hope laid waste , knells in that word - alone ! The New Timon . When ...
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