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... beneath his weight of woe , Lest he should feel when about to die , By God deserted utterly , He cannot die Though he longs for death , Stronger and stronger grows his breath , And hopeless woe the spring of being feeds ; He faints not ...
... beneath his weight of woe , Lest he should feel when about to die , By God deserted utterly , He cannot die Though he longs for death , Stronger and stronger grows his breath , And hopeless woe the spring of being feeds ; He faints not ...
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... beneath the sun Gleams radiant as the snow , And o'er the gently - heaving swell Bounds like a mountain - roe . In that frail bark the lovers sit , With steadfast face and silent breath , Following the guiding hope of life , Yet ...
... beneath the sun Gleams radiant as the snow , And o'er the gently - heaving swell Bounds like a mountain - roe . In that frail bark the lovers sit , With steadfast face and silent breath , Following the guiding hope of life , Yet ...
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... beneath the mellowing light , That trembles between day and night Before the Sun's decline , As to the touch of fairy - hand Upstarting dim the nameless land Extends its mountain line . It is no cloud that steadfast lies Between the ...
... beneath the mellowing light , That trembles between day and night Before the Sun's decline , As to the touch of fairy - hand Upstarting dim the nameless land Extends its mountain line . It is no cloud that steadfast lies Between the ...
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... beneath her languid head , The silken withered leaves he spread , That she might sweetly sleep . Then down he sat by her tender side , And , as she lay , with soft touch dried The stealing tears she could not hide ; Till sleep 34 CANTO ...
... beneath her languid head , The silken withered leaves he spread , That she might sweetly sleep . Then down he sat by her tender side , And , as she lay , with soft touch dried The stealing tears she could not hide ; Till sleep 34 CANTO ...
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... Beneath its sheltering tree : Fitz - Owen's eye is fixed on hers , While with a timid smile she stirs Beside her mother's knee . But the rising sun hath pour'd his beams Into her heart , and broke her dreams ; Slowly she lifts her eyes ...
... Beneath its sheltering tree : Fitz - Owen's eye is fixed on hers , While with a timid smile she stirs Beside her mother's knee . But the rising sun hath pour'd his beams Into her heart , and broke her dreams ; Slowly she lifts her eyes ...
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Page 407 - A CLOUD lay cradled near the setting sun ; A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow : Long had I watched the glory moving on, O'er the still radiance of the lake below ; Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow, E'en in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow, Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west.
Page 16 - Now is the ocean's bosom bare, Unbroken as the floating air ; The ship hath melted quite away, Like a struggling dream at break of day. No image meets my wandering eye, But the new-risen sun and the sunny sky.
Page 231 - ... of thy desert regardless of foes. Thy bold antlers call on the hunter afar, With a haughty defiance to come to the war ! No outrage is war to a creature like thee ! The bugle-horn fills thy wild spirit with glee, As thou bearest thy neck on the wings of the wind, And the laggardly gaze-hound is toiling behind. In the beams of thy forehead that glitter with death — In feet that draw power from the touch of the heath...
Page 228 - Magnificent creature ! so stately and bright ! In the pride of thy spirit pursuing thy flight; For what hath the child of the desert to dread, Wafting up his own mountains that far-beaming head ; Or borne like a whirlwind down on the vale .' — Hail ! king of the wild and the beautiful! — hail! Hail ! idol divine! whom nature hath borne O'er a hundred hill-tops since the mists of the morn, Whom the pilgrim lone wandering on mountain and moor, As the vision glides by him, may...
Page 223 - Those wandering veins of heavenly blue That stray along thy forehead fair, Lost 'mid a gleam of golden hair? Oh, can that light and airy breath Steal from a being doomed to death; Those features to the grave be sent In sleep thus mutely eloquent? Or art thou, what thy form would seem, The phantom of a blessed dream?