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... hear What ye , celestial Maids ! have often sung Of Britain's acts , -may catch it with rapt ear , And give the treasure to our British tongue ! So shall the characters of that proud page Support their mighty theme from age to age ; And ...
... hear What ye , celestial Maids ! have often sung Of Britain's acts , -may catch it with rapt ear , And give the treasure to our British tongue ! So shall the characters of that proud page Support their mighty theme from age to age ; And ...
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... hear of kingdoms won , And slaves are pleased to learn that mighty feats are done ; Even the proud Realm , from whose distracted borders This messenger of good was launched in air , France , humbled France , amid her wild disorders ...
... hear of kingdoms won , And slaves are pleased to learn that mighty feats are done ; Even the proud Realm , from whose distracted borders This messenger of good was launched in air , France , humbled France , amid her wild disorders ...
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... hear Thy green leaves rustle or thy torrents roar . As springs the lion from his den , As from a forest - brake Upstarts a glistering snake , The bold Arch - despot reappeared ; -again Wide Europe heaves , impatient to be cast , With ...
... hear Thy green leaves rustle or thy torrents roar . As springs the lion from his den , As from a forest - brake Upstarts a glistering snake , The bold Arch - despot reappeared ; -again Wide Europe heaves , impatient to be cast , With ...
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... hear ! And what , ' mid silence deep , with faith sincere , Ye , in your low and undisturbed estate , Shall simply feel and purely meditate— Of warnings - from the unprecedented might , Which , in our time , the impious have disclosed ...
... hear ! And what , ' mid silence deep , with faith sincere , Ye , in your low and undisturbed estate , Shall simply feel and purely meditate— Of warnings - from the unprecedented might , Which , in our time , the impious have disclosed ...
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Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty Stopford Augustus Brooke,William Wordsworth No preview available - 2016 |
Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty (1897) William Wordsworth,Stopford Augustus Brooke No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 37 - TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men ! Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough Within thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den ; — O miserable Chieftain ! where and when Wilt thou find patience ? Yet die not ; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow : Though fallen thyself, never to rise again, Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee ; air, earth, and skies ; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will...
Page 41 - But when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men ; And I by my affection was beguiled : What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements...
Page 36 - On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic' ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.
Page 39 - O Friend! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our Life is only drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom!— We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking...
Page 41 - For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men ; And I by my affection was beguiled : What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child ! OCTOBER, 1803.
Page 47 - ANOTHER year ! — another deadly blow ! Another mighty Empire overthrown ! And We are left, or shall be left, alone ; The last that dare to struggle with the Foe. 'Tis well ! from this day forward we shall know That in ourselves our safety must be sought ; That by our own right hands it must be wrought ; That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low.
Page 35 - Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees : Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk...
Page 56 - THE land we from our fathers had in trust, And to our children will transmit, or die, — This is our maxim, this our piety, And God and Nature say that it is just.
Page 39 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen music, Liberty...
Page 40 - France, tis strange, Hath brought forth no such souls as we had then. Perpetual emptiness! unceasing change! No single volume paramount, no code, No master spirit, no determined road; But equally a want of books and men!