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... soft and mild , As angel's bright , as fairy's wild , Swimming in lustrous dew , Now sparkling lively , gay , and glad , And now their spirit melting sad In smiles of gentlest blue , — Oh ! must these eyes be steeped in tears , Bedimmed ...
... soft and mild , As angel's bright , as fairy's wild , Swimming in lustrous dew , Now sparkling lively , gay , and glad , And now their spirit melting sad In smiles of gentlest blue , — Oh ! must these eyes be steeped in tears , Bedimmed ...
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... soft as snow on snow , When thy yearning heart repressed its sighs , And from thy never - closing eyes Forbade the tears to flow . But now unto thy looks are given The beauty and the power of Heaven : The sternness of this dismal Isle ...
... soft as snow on snow , When thy yearning heart repressed its sighs , And from thy never - closing eyes Forbade the tears to flow . But now unto thy looks are given The beauty and the power of Heaven : The sternness of this dismal Isle ...
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... They gaze on her , till she appears As if she understood their tears ; To lay there with her cheerful sail Till Heaven should send some gracious gale , Some gentle spirit of the deep , With motion soft CANTO II . 27 THE ISLE OF PALMS .
... They gaze on her , till she appears As if she understood their tears ; To lay there with her cheerful sail Till Heaven should send some gracious gale , Some gentle spirit of the deep , With motion soft CANTO II . 27 THE ISLE OF PALMS .
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John Wilson James Frederick Ferrier. Some gentle spirit of the deep , With motion soft and swift as sleep , To waft them to some pleasant cave In the unknown gardens of the wave , That , hid from every human eye , Are happy in the ...
John Wilson James Frederick Ferrier. Some gentle spirit of the deep , With motion soft and swift as sleep , To waft them to some pleasant cave In the unknown gardens of the wave , That , hid from every human eye , Are happy in the ...
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... soft and low , The beautiful , the halcyon glow , That bathes the evening wave . Before the setting sun they kneel , And through the silent air , To Him that dwells on that throne of light They pour their souls in prayer . Their ...
... soft and low , The beautiful , the halcyon glow , That bathes the evening wave . Before the setting sun they kneel , And through the silent air , To Him that dwells on that throne of light They pour their souls in prayer . Their ...
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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?