Poetical Sketches of the South of FranceJ. Rodwell, 1831 - 119 pages |
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... vale the abode of Abyssinia's son . It is a prison , which , alas ! not yields The varied charms of that romantic vale : Stone walls and dusty lanes - no fresh green fields , - Like Libyan serpents , round our gardens trail : Frogs ...
... vale the abode of Abyssinia's son . It is a prison , which , alas ! not yields The varied charms of that romantic vale : Stone walls and dusty lanes - no fresh green fields , - Like Libyan serpents , round our gardens trail : Frogs ...
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... Vale : The rain fell heavily : -shock after shock , Borne on the wings of lightning , told a tale Not unremembered . - But the morning sky Breathes beauty , softness , and serenity . XXVIII . ON THE SAME OCCASION . f ' ] SONNETS . 29 29 ...
... Vale : The rain fell heavily : -shock after shock , Borne on the wings of lightning , told a tale Not unremembered . - But the morning sky Breathes beauty , softness , and serenity . XXVIII . ON THE SAME OCCASION . f ' ] SONNETS . 29 29 ...
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... vale from side to side , In all the haughtiness of Roman pride . That triple row of arches , piled on high , Disdains the valley , and its humble river , Which glideth gently at his own sweet will * , And thus will flow as gently on for ...
... vale from side to side , In all the haughtiness of Roman pride . That triple row of arches , piled on high , Disdains the valley , and its humble river , Which glideth gently at his own sweet will * , And thus will flow as gently on for ...
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... vale re- sound- Which bows the meditative mind with fear Before the God of nature - there was found A band of men , who on their spirits bound An atheistic creed : —the Deity They saw alone in reason's narrow round Of causes and effects ...
... vale re- sound- Which bows the meditative mind with fear Before the God of nature - there was found A band of men , who on their spirits bound An atheistic creed : —the Deity They saw alone in reason's narrow round Of causes and effects ...
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... vale sublime Reclines majestic ; and the sun's soft beams At evening rest upon his savage face , Mellowing and moulding the rude countenance Almost to beauty , such as nature shows , Even in her rudest forms , when heaven's fair light ...
... vale sublime Reclines majestic ; and the sun's soft beams At evening rest upon his savage face , Mellowing and moulding the rude countenance Almost to beauty , such as nature shows , Even in her rudest forms , when heaven's fair light ...
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ancient appear Avignon beams beauty beneath blue bosom breath breeze bright brow Burial at Sea church clime clouds cork trees dark dead dear death deep dialect doth earth fade fair Faith farewell French galley slaves Gaul glorious Greek language green fields Grief hath heart heaven hill hither Hyeres Immortality Joigny La Rochepot land language light Ligurian melancholy mellow mighty mirth MOOR'S HEAD nature night noble o'er Orgon patois Petrarch Phoceans poem proud King Provence quicklime rest Rhone River Yonne road Roche Don rock rocky Roman rude ruined Samphire Saone Savoy Mountains scene scenery setting sun shine shore side sleep soft SONNET sorrow soul SOUTH OF FRANCE spirits spot stone storm stream sublime sweet tears thee thine eye thou art thought thunder Toulon trees vale vaults visited voice walls waters waves ween wild wind wing wood WRITTEN IN FRANCE
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Page 105 - Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Page 93 - Twas not for fiction chose Rousseau this spot, Peopling it with affections ; but he found It was the scene which passion must allot To the mind's purified beings ; 'twas the ground Where early Love his Psyche's zone unbound, And...
Page 92 - Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between Heights which appear as lovers who have parted In hate, whose mining depths so intervene, That they can meet no more, though broken-hearted ; Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed : Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years all winters, — war within themselves to wage.
Page 60 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 92 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 114 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he...
Page 103 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which...
Page 32 - With inward stillness, and a bowed mind ; When lo ! its folds far waving on the wind, I saw the train of the departing Year ! Starting from my silent sadness Then with no unholy madness Ere yet the entered cloud foreclosed my sight, I raised the impetuous song, and solemnized his flight.
Page 59 - O'er the corse of the deaf, unconscious dead. Then they bore his remains to the vessel's side, And committed them safe to the dark blue tide : One sullen plunge. — and the scene is o'er — The sea rolled on as it rolled before. In that classical sea, whose azure vies With the green of its shore, and the blue of its skies, In some pearly cave, in some coral cell, Oh! the dead shall sleep as sweetly, as well, As if shrined in the pomp of Parian tombs, Where the cast and me south breathe their rich...
Page 59 - With the green of its shore, and the blue of its skies, In some pearly cave, in some coral cell, Oh ! the dead shall sleep as sweetly, as well As if shrined in the pomp of Parian tombs, Where the east and the south breathe their rich perfumes. Nor forgotten shall be the humblest one, Though he sleep in the watery waste...