Poetical Works, 3. numberHoughton Mifflin, 1950 - 1095 pages |
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... natural description , the following , from The Indian Emperor , is perhaps the most ambitious : Enter CORTEZ alone , in a nightgown . All things are hush'd , as Nature's self lay dead ; The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head ; The ...
... natural description , the following , from The Indian Emperor , is perhaps the most ambitious : Enter CORTEZ alone , in a nightgown . All things are hush'd , as Nature's self lay dead ; The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head ; The ...
Page 164
... nature's laws . Then for the style ; majestic and divine , It speaks no less than God in every line : Commanding words ; whose force is still the same As the first fiat that produc'd our frame . All faiths beside or did by arms ascend ...
... nature's laws . Then for the style ; majestic and divine , It speaks no less than God in every line : Commanding words ; whose force is still the same As the first fiat that produc'd our frame . All faiths beside or did by arms ascend ...
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... Nature brings ; Loathing the present , liking absent things ; From hence it comes , thy vain desires , at strife Within themselves , have tantaliz'd thy life ; And ghastly death appear'd before thy sight , Ere thou hadst gorg'd thy soul ...
... Nature brings ; Loathing the present , liking absent things ; From hence it comes , thy vain desires , at strife Within themselves , have tantaliz'd thy life ; And ghastly death appear'd before thy sight , Ere thou hadst gorg'd thy soul ...
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | xvii |
EARLY POEMS | liv |
UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD | 1 |
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