... 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... Poems for Young People - Page 150edited by - 1851 - 173 pagesFull view - About this book
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all her song: And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive...voice was heard at every close ; And Hope, enchanted, smil'd, and wav'd her golden hair. 6. And longer had she sung— but, with a frown, Revenge impatient... | |
| John Mason Good - Natural history - 1834 - 394 pages
...strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song. And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, And IIoi'E enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair. The portrait is graceful, elegant, and animated... | |
| John Mason Good - Natural history - 1834 - 480 pages
...Echo still through all the song. And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice wns heard at every close, And HOPE enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair. The portrait is graceful, elegant, and animated ; but I may venture to say, that the only real expression... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...whispered promised pleasure, and bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! 554. [Read with high key] But with a frown Revenge impatient rose. He threw...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... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all her song: And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every closft, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair. And longer had she sung — but, with... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still- through all her song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive...sung — but, with a frown, Revenge impatient rose. Re threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down, And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet... | |
| Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...emitted in these gloomy caves. The lines of Collins were suggested by it— " He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so laud and dread Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!" Nothing could be in better keeping than... | |
| English poetry - 1910 - 336 pages
...theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at ev'ry close, And Hope enchanted smil'd, and wav'd her golden hair. And longer had she sung, — but with a frown, Revenge impatient rose, 40 He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a with'ring look, The war-denouncing... | |
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