Poetic Gleanings, from Modern Writers: With Some Original PiecesHarvey and Darton, 1827 - 160 pages |
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... And blossoms every where . On waste and woodland , rock and plain , Its humble buds unheeded rise ; The Rose has but a summer reign , The DAISY never dies . MISSIONARY HYMN . BY HEBER . FROM Greenland's icy mountains 2 A FIELD FLOWER .
... And blossoms every where . On waste and woodland , rock and plain , Its humble buds unheeded rise ; The Rose has but a summer reign , The DAISY never dies . MISSIONARY HYMN . BY HEBER . FROM Greenland's icy mountains 2 A FIELD FLOWER .
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... summer night , From tranquil rest to wake , And see the moonbeams ' silvery light In gentle glory break Through opening clouds or leafy trees , Whose whispers own the passing breeze . And ' tis delightful , just as day Illumes the ...
... summer night , From tranquil rest to wake , And see the moonbeams ' silvery light In gentle glory break Through opening clouds or leafy trees , Whose whispers own the passing breeze . And ' tis delightful , just as day Illumes the ...
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... summer seas to work their way , And wage the watery war , and make the seals their prey . Ye delicate ! reproach no more The seasons of your native shore . Here soon shall Spring descend the sky , With smiling brow and placid eye ; A ...
... summer seas to work their way , And wage the watery war , and make the seals their prey . Ye delicate ! reproach no more The seasons of your native shore . Here soon shall Spring descend the sky , With smiling brow and placid eye ; A ...
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... summer flowers around were springing , And when to thee a thousand rills , Throughout the quiet night were singing . And lo ! the dwarfish Laplander , Far from his solitary home , Dismay'd , beholds the evening star , While many a mile ...
... summer flowers around were springing , And when to thee a thousand rills , Throughout the quiet night were singing . And lo ! the dwarfish Laplander , Far from his solitary home , Dismay'd , beholds the evening star , While many a mile ...
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... summer's day . And I was caught in Folly's snare , And join'd her giddy train ; But found her soon the nurse of Care , And Punishment , and Pain . There surely is some guiding Power Which rightly suffers wrong ; Gives Vice to bloom its ...
... summer's day . And I was caught in Folly's snare , And join'd her giddy train ; But found her soon the nurse of Care , And Punishment , and Pain . There surely is some guiding Power Which rightly suffers wrong ; Gives Vice to bloom its ...
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Page vii - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 2 - Apples plants of such a price, No Tree could ever bear them twice. With Cedars chosen by his hand, From Lebanon he stores the Land. And makes the hollow Seas, that roar, Proclaim the Ambergris on shore.
Page 12 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Page vi - The purple heath and golden broom, On moory mountains catch the gale, O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet in the vale; But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den.
Page 32 - The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp.
Page 82 - Disasters, do the best we can, Will reach both great and small And he is oft the wisest man, Who is not wise at all.
Page 40 - Hark! hark! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem : But one alone the Saviour speaks ; It is the Star of Bethlehem.
Page 85 - THE GREEN LINNET BENEATH these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat ! And birds and flowers once more to greet. My last year's friends together.
Page 19 - Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot: Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remembered not.
Page 84 - And, as a fagot sparkles on the hearth, Not less if unattended and alone, Than when both young and old sit gathered round, And take delight in its activity, Even so this happy creature of herself Is all-sufficient; solitude to her Is blithe society; she fills the air With gladness and involuntary songs.