Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie |
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This morning , timely rapt with holy fire , I thought to form unto my zealous Muse , What kind of creature I could most desire , To honor , serve , and love ; as poets use . I meant to make her fair , and free , and wise , Of greatest ...
This morning , timely rapt with holy fire , I thought to form unto my zealous Muse , What kind of creature I could most desire , To honor , serve , and love ; as poets use . I meant to make her fair , and free , and wise , Of greatest ...
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False fires , alas ! to draw us in ; Thou wert wiser , and didst know Which , if our course we by them keep , None too wise ... Sleep were well , thou'st learn't a way Close as heat with fire is join'd ; To death itself now to betray .
False fires , alas ! to draw us in ; Thou wert wiser , and didst know Which , if our course we by them keep , None too wise ... Sleep were well , thou'st learn't a way Close as heat with fire is join'd ; To death itself now to betray .
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... vast regions hold The immortal mind , that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or under ground , Whose power hath a true consent With planet , or with element .
... vast regions hold The immortal mind , that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or under ground , Whose power hath a true consent With planet , or with element .
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But what if he our conqueror ( whom I now There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd Of force believe almighty , since no less With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , Than such could have o'erpower'd such force as ours ) He ...
But what if he our conqueror ( whom I now There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd Of force believe almighty , since no less With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , Than such could have o'erpower'd such force as ours ) He ...
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... He lights , if it were land that ever Lurn'd But ever to do ill our sole delight , With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; As being the contrary to his high will And such appear'd in hue , as when the force Whom we resist .
... He lights , if it were land that ever Lurn'd But ever to do ill our sole delight , With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; As being the contrary to his high will And such appear'd in hue , as when the force Whom we resist .
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Page 23 - Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves; Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 22 - How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Page 240 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care : His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 31 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 32 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 46 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 21 - Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 22 - Lycid lies. For so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurl'd, Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 19 - And if I give thee honor due Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreproved pleasures free; To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...
Page 56 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With...
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| Pealkiri | Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie |
| Autor | John Aikin |
| Edition | 10 |
| Publisher | T. Wardle, 1843 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 veeb. 2008 |
| Length | 807 pages |
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