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... unto the starry skies , As the dim effusion of their rays Blends with the glimmering light that plays O'er the blue heavens , and snowy clouds , ' The cloud - like sails , and radiant shrouds . Fair creature ! Thou dost seem to be Some ...
... unto the starry skies , As the dim effusion of their rays Blends with the glimmering light that plays O'er the blue heavens , and snowy clouds , ' The cloud - like sails , and radiant shrouds . Fair creature ! Thou dost seem to be Some ...
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... unto her nest , His longing spirit homewards would return To meet once more the smile of human kind . And when at last a human soul he found , Pure as the thought of purity , -- more mild Than in its slumber seems a dreaming child ...
... unto her nest , His longing spirit homewards would return To meet once more the smile of human kind . And when at last a human soul he found , Pure as the thought of purity , -- more mild Than in its slumber seems a dreaming child ...
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... unto thy Mary's head , And gently would we glide away , Fitz - Owen to that purer day Of which thou once didst sing ; Like birds , that , rising from the foam , Seek on some lofty cliff their home , On storm - despising wing . Yes ...
... unto thy Mary's head , And gently would we glide away , Fitz - Owen to that purer day Of which thou once didst sing ; Like birds , that , rising from the foam , Seek on some lofty cliff their home , On storm - despising wing . Yes ...
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... Unto her sinless spirit : nought he said ; But gazing on her with a fearful love , Such as saints feel for sister - souls above , Her cheek upon his bosom gently laid , And dreamt with her of Heaven . Pure were their souls , as infant's ...
... Unto her sinless spirit : nought he said ; But gazing on her with a fearful love , Such as saints feel for sister - souls above , Her cheek upon his bosom gently laid , And dreamt with her of Heaven . Pure were their souls , as infant's ...
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... unto her ear , Their hymnings wild and sweet ? Lo ! human creatures meet her view As happy , and as beauteous too , As those aërial phantoms ! -in their mien , Where'er they move , a graceful calm is seen All foreign to this utter ...
... unto her ear , Their hymnings wild and sweet ? Lo ! human creatures meet her view As happy , and as beauteous too , As those aërial phantoms ! -in their mien , Where'er they move , a graceful calm is seen All foreign to this utter ...
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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?