Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas Tomkins |
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... voice , Some facred impulse , or some dream divine , Approve the dictates of thy early choice ? ---- Approach with confidence the awful shrine . There , kneeling at yon ' altar's marble base ( While streams of rapture from thine eye ...
... voice , Some facred impulse , or some dream divine , Approve the dictates of thy early choice ? ---- Approach with confidence the awful shrine . There , kneeling at yon ' altar's marble base ( While streams of rapture from thine eye ...
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... then what folemn scenes deceiv'd my choice ! The pealing organ's animating found , The choral virgin's captivating voice , The blazing altar , and the priests around ; D 37 The train of youths array'd in purest white , Who SELECT POEMS .
... then what folemn scenes deceiv'd my choice ! The pealing organ's animating found , The choral virgin's captivating voice , The blazing altar , and the priests around ; D 37 The train of youths array'd in purest white , Who SELECT POEMS .
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... voice unfold This cloister'd fcene in all its horror dreft ; , Nor did the then my trembling steps withold When here I enter'd a reluctant guest . Ah ! could the view her only child betray'd , And let fubmiffion o'er her love prevail ...
... voice unfold This cloister'd fcene in all its horror dreft ; , Nor did the then my trembling steps withold When here I enter'd a reluctant guest . Ah ! could the view her only child betray'd , And let fubmiffion o'er her love prevail ...
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... voice to murmur , and this breast to heave . Ah ! when extended on th ' untimely bier , To yonder vault this form shall be convey'd , Thou'lt not refufe to fhed one grateful tear , And breathe the requiem to my fleeting shade . With ...
... voice to murmur , and this breast to heave . Ah ! when extended on th ' untimely bier , To yonder vault this form shall be convey'd , Thou'lt not refufe to fhed one grateful tear , And breathe the requiem to my fleeting shade . With ...
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... voice attune the funeral lay : Behold the minister who lately gave The facred veil , in garb of mournful hue , ( More friendly office ) bending o'er my grave , And fprinkling my remains with hallow'd dew : As o'er the corfe he ftrews ...
... voice attune the funeral lay : Behold the minister who lately gave The facred veil , in garb of mournful hue , ( More friendly office ) bending o'er my grave , And fprinkling my remains with hallow'd dew : As o'er the corfe he ftrews ...
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Page 150 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 81 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 186 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 178 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 183 - Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 193 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 99 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 82 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 149 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 185 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On.