The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 17Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... steps , While she , inconstant , with unsteady rein , Through endless mazes and meanders guides In its unequal course her changing car : Whether behind the Sun's superior light She hides the beauties of her radiant face , Or , when ...
... steps , While she , inconstant , with unsteady rein , Through endless mazes and meanders guides In its unequal course her changing car : Whether behind the Sun's superior light She hides the beauties of her radiant face , Or , when ...
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... step Her sacred nurses follow'd , ever now To her alone inseparably join'd ; Then first deserting their Nyseian shore ... steps Indignant Commerce , turning from the walls Herself had rais'd , her welcome sway enlarg'd Among the nations ...
... step Her sacred nurses follow'd , ever now To her alone inseparably join'd ; Then first deserting their Nyseian shore ... steps Indignant Commerce , turning from the walls Herself had rais'd , her welcome sway enlarg'd Among the nations ...
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... steps ; why London late hath seen ( Thy lov'd , thy last retreat ) desponding care O'ercloud thy brow : O listen , while the Muse , Th ' immortal progeny of Jove , unfolds The fatal cause . What time in Nysa's cave Th ' ethereal train ...
... steps ; why London late hath seen ( Thy lov'd , thy last retreat ) desponding care O'ercloud thy brow : O listen , while the Muse , Th ' immortal progeny of Jove , unfolds The fatal cause . What time in Nysa's cave Th ' ethereal train ...
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... steps Anon shall visit your triumphant isle . And , that perpetual safety may possess Our joyous fields , thou ... step Gigantic Terrour , striding round our coast , Shall shake his gorgon ægis , and the hearts Of proudest kings appal ...
... steps Anon shall visit your triumphant isle . And , that perpetual safety may possess Our joyous fields , thou ... step Gigantic Terrour , striding round our coast , Shall shake his gorgon ægis , and the hearts Of proudest kings appal ...
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... steps Forth moves their godlike king , with conscious worth His gen'rous bosom glowing . Such the port Of his divine progenitor ; impell'd By ardent virtue , so Alcides trod Invincible to face in horrid war The triple form of Geryon ...
... steps Forth moves their godlike king , with conscious worth His gen'rous bosom glowing . Such the port Of his divine progenitor ; impell'd By ardent virtue , so Alcides trod Invincible to face in horrid war The triple form of Geryon ...
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Page 319 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 319 - Pure as the expanse of Heaven: I thither went, With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky.
Page 324 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 322 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 319 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself, With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine ; to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother of human race.
Page 321 - Of Nature's Womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations, that now rise From Hill or steaming Lake, dusky or grey, Till the Sun paint your fleecy skirts with Gold, In honour to the World's great Author rise...
Page 319 - Return, fair Eve ; Whom fliest thou ? whom thou fliest, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone ; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life ; to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear. Part of my soul, I seek thee, and thee claim, My other half.
Page 324 - I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 319 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Page 319 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet...