Poems on Various Subjects, Band 63author, 1803 - 441 Seiten |
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... scenes where pomp and pleasure tread . Will you , ye proud and gay , attend a while , To homely truths rehears'd in homely stile ; And hear a rustic muse those truths impart , From the full sources of the swelling heart ? No strains of ...
... scenes where pomp and pleasure tread . Will you , ye proud and gay , attend a while , To homely truths rehears'd in homely stile ; And hear a rustic muse those truths impart , From the full sources of the swelling heart ? No strains of ...
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... scene , Though SIDDONS self in sorrow's pomp be seen , Can wake emotions in the callous mind , Vers'd in the crooked science of mankind , So soft , so strong , so warm , as here are known , Where modest NATURE works , and works alone ...
... scene , Though SIDDONS self in sorrow's pomp be seen , Can wake emotions in the callous mind , Vers'd in the crooked science of mankind , So soft , so strong , so warm , as here are known , Where modest NATURE works , and works alone ...
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... scene , The narrow op'ning glens that intervene Still shelter in some lowly nook obscure , One poorer than the rest - where all are poor ; Some widow'd Matron , hopeless of relief , Who to her secret breast confines her grief ; Dejected ...
... scene , The narrow op'ning glens that intervene Still shelter in some lowly nook obscure , One poorer than the rest - where all are poor ; Some widow'd Matron , hopeless of relief , Who to her secret breast confines her grief ; Dejected ...
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... Scene of vacant leisure , diversified by Music , Poetry , and Rural Sports , is opened to the people . Return from the Shealings . Autumn . Tokens of an early Winter . Wattled Barns . All Saints or Hallow - Even . Rural Dancing . Grace ...
... Scene of vacant leisure , diversified by Music , Poetry , and Rural Sports , is opened to the people . Return from the Shealings . Autumn . Tokens of an early Winter . Wattled Barns . All Saints or Hallow - Even . Rural Dancing . Grace ...
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... scene . While Nature , wrapt in chilly bright disguise , And sunk in deep repose unconscious lies ; * And through the pure cerulean vault above , In lucid order constellations move : The milky - way , conspicuous glows on high ...
... scene . While Nature , wrapt in chilly bright disguise , And sunk in deep repose unconscious lies ; * And through the pure cerulean vault above , In lucid order constellations move : The milky - way , conspicuous glows on high ...
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Aberdeen Alex Alexander artless bard beams beauty blast blest bloom bosom breast bright brow Campbell cheer Chief clouds copies cries crown'd dark dear death deck deck'd Ditto drest Edin Edinburgh eyes fair faithful fame fate FINGALIANS FLORA MACDONALD foes Fort Augustus Fraser Gaelic Glasgow Glendoe Glenmoriston gloom glow Gordon grace Greenock grove haunts heart Highland Highland Laddie Inverness isle James John kind KINGSBURGH Lady Leith light lofty London Lord lov'd lyre Macdonald Mackenzie Mackintosh Macpherson maid mind Miss MOOME mountains mournful Munro Muse native nymph o'er OSSIAN Paisley peaceful plain pleas'd poems pow'r PRINCE Robert rocks rose round scene shades shore skies smile soft song soothe sorrow soul South Uist Stewart Stirling strain strath stream swains sweet tender thee thou thro toil truth vale wandering weary wild William wind wont youth
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Seite 31 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say ' This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Seite 249 - The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name...
Seite 57 - And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
Seite 401 - A bonnet with a lofty plume, the gallant badge of war; And a plaid across the manly breast, that yet shall wear a star." "Suppose, ah! suppose, that some cruel, cruel wound Should pierce your Highland laddie, and all your hopes confound...
Seite 228 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices...
Seite 401 - But I will hope to see him yet, in Scotland's bonny bounds; But I will hope to see him yet, in Scotland's bonny bounds. His native land of liberty shall nurse his glorious wounds, While wide, through all our Highland hills, his warlike name resounds.
Seite 399 - OH, where, tell me where is your Highland laddie gone? Oh, where, tell me where is your Highland laddie gone? He's gone with streaming banners where noble deeds are done, And my sad heart will tremble till he come safely home. Oh, where, tell me where did your Highland laddie stay...
Seite 399 - O WHERE, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone? O where, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone ? " " He's gone, with streaming banners, where noble deeds are done; And my sad heart will tremble till he comes safely home.
Seite 43 - ... warriors to her breast ; And as they strove, with smiles of filial love, Their widowed parent's anguish to remove, Through her small casement broke the intrusive day, And chased the pleasing images away ! No time can e'er her banished joys restore, For ah! a heart once broken heals no more. The dewy beams that gleam from pity's eye, The
Seite 400 - O where, tell me where, did your Highland laddie stay ? " " He dwelt beneath the holly trees, beside the rapid Spey; And many a blessing followed him the day he. went away.