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Page 43
... bright , The growth of many a happy year , one wayward hour should blight ; - Bow down her fair but fragile form , her brilliant brow o'ercast , And make her beauty - like her bliss - a shadow of the past ! Years came and went- change ...
... bright , The growth of many a happy year , one wayward hour should blight ; - Bow down her fair but fragile form , her brilliant brow o'ercast , And make her beauty - like her bliss - a shadow of the past ! Years came and went- change ...
Page 48
... bright . There twines a wreath around your brow , Blent with the sunny braid , Love lends its flowers a radiant glow , Ye do not think't will fade ; And yet ' t were safer there to bind That plant of changeless die , Whose root is in ...
... bright . There twines a wreath around your brow , Blent with the sunny braid , Love lends its flowers a radiant glow , Ye do not think't will fade ; And yet ' t were safer there to bind That plant of changeless die , Whose root is in ...
Page 51
... bright career Must slacken soon in Autumn's milder sway ; Then thy now heap'd and jocund meads shall stand Smooth , vacant - silent , through th ' exulting land As waves thy rival's golden fields , and gay Her reapers throng . She ...
... bright career Must slacken soon in Autumn's milder sway ; Then thy now heap'd and jocund meads shall stand Smooth , vacant - silent , through th ' exulting land As waves thy rival's golden fields , and gay Her reapers throng . She ...
Page 52
No tears are on their beauty , but dewy gems more bright Than ever brow of eastern queen endiadem'd with light . The young rejoicing creatures ! their pleasures never pall ; Nor lose in sweet contentment , because so free to all ! - The ...
No tears are on their beauty , but dewy gems more bright Than ever brow of eastern queen endiadem'd with light . The young rejoicing creatures ! their pleasures never pall ; Nor lose in sweet contentment , because so free to all ! - The ...
Page 59
... bright Peep'd from the blue profound . Yet what cared we for dark'ning lea , Or warning bell remote ? With shout and cry we scudded by , And found the bliss we sought . The snow ! the snow ! - ' twas ours to wage , How oft , a mimic war ...
... bright Peep'd from the blue profound . Yet what cared we for dark'ning lea , Or warning bell remote ? With shout and cry we scudded by , And found the bliss we sought . The snow ! the snow ! - ' twas ours to wage , How oft , a mimic war ...
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ANNA SEWARD ANON art thou beams beauty beneath birds bless bloom blossoms blue Bluebottle bower breast breath breeze bright brow buds calm charm cheek child clouds dark dear death deep delight dream earth eternal fair father flowers friends gaze gentle gleams glory glow golden grace Granada grave grief happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven hope hour J. G. LOCKHART Lady light lips lonely lonely grove look look'd lovelier maid MARY HOWITT Moorish morn mother mountains murmuring Naiad Nature's ne'er neath night o'er pale Pale flowers pass'd peace rill rose round shade shed shine sigh sight silent sing sister skies sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring star summer sunny sweet tears thee thine things thou art thought throne tree Twas vale voice waves weep wild wind wing young youth