Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems, Ausgabe 2G. & C. Carvill, 1827 - 64 Seiten |
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... thine . But to the hero , when his sword Has won the battle for the free , Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be . Come , when his task of fame is wrought- Come ...
... thine . But to the hero , when his sword Has won the battle for the free , Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be . Come , when his task of fame is wrought- Come ...
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... For thee she rings the birth - day bells ; Of thee her babes ' first lisping tells ; For thine her evening prayer is said At palace couch , and cottage bed ; Her soldier , closing with the foe , Gives for 14 MARCO BOZZARIS .
... For thee she rings the birth - day bells ; Of thee her babes ' first lisping tells ; For thine her evening prayer is said At palace couch , and cottage bed ; Her soldier , closing with the foe , Gives for 14 MARCO BOZZARIS .
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... thine , beneath the thorn - tree's bough , My sunny hour was glad and brief , We've crossed the winter sea , and thou Art withered , -flower and leaf . And will not thy death - doom be mine , - The doom of all things wrought of clay ...
... thine , beneath the thorn - tree's bough , My sunny hour was glad and brief , We've crossed the winter sea , and thou Art withered , -flower and leaf . And will not thy death - doom be mine , - The doom of all things wrought of clay ...
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... thou art lying , Will tears the cold turf steep . When hearts , whose truth was proven , Like thine , are laid in earth , There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth , 30 ON THE DEATH OF J. RODMAN DRAKE . And.
... thou art lying , Will tears the cold turf steep . When hearts , whose truth was proven , Like thine , are laid in earth , There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth , 30 ON THE DEATH OF J. RODMAN DRAKE . And.
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... thine ; It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow , But I've in vain essayed it , And feel I cannot now . While memory bids me weep thee , Nor thoughts nor words are free , The grief is fixed too deeply That mourns a man like ...
... thine ; It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow , But I've in vain essayed it , And feel I cannot now . While memory bids me weep thee , Nor thoughts nor words are free , The grief is fixed too deeply That mourns a man like ...
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Alike to smile ALNWICK ALNWICK CASTLE autumn AYRE baby fingers Wake Babylon beauty beneath the sky bird bird of night blue born born to die boughs Bozzaris brave breath bright brow CASTLE cheek clouds curls dark death early power fame feet Are strangers fingers Wake sounds fire-fly's flight funeral gaze grave Greece green hair harp hath heard heaven heaven's own harmony infancy and song joy or grief King George land Lexington life's young purity lingers Upon thy listened lost friends wakened lovelier Magdalen maiden mark its dimpled memory minstrel Music as thine NEW-YORK o'er Palestine Percys POEMS Poet's proud shade sings sleep star-light hours strangers on Life's summer flowers sunbeam sunny sweet boy tears thou art thy baby fingers tomb tree Trod truth Turk twilight unheeded long wandering warm WILD ROSE win us Alike wing WYOMING
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Seite 12 - They fought like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered; but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won, Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly as to a night's repose— Like flowers at set of sun.
Seite 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ; " and also to an act. entitled, " An act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietor? of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Seite 29 - GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Seite 30 - Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts whose truth was proven, Like thine are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth. And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and woe were thine — It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I 've in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot...
Seite 22 - ... high, . , That could not fear, and would not bow, Were written in his manly eye, And on his manly brow. Praise to the bard ! — his words are driven, Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown, Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven, The birds of fame have flown.
Seite 15 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow ; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys, Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh : For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names,...
Seite 4 - Above his princely towers. A gentle hill its side inclines, Lovely in England's fadeless green, To meet the quiet stream which winds Through this romantic scene As silently and sweetly still, As when, at evening, on that hill, While summer's wind blew soft and low, Seated by gallant Hotspur's side, His Katherine was a happy bride, A thousand years ago.
Seite 18 - Ascendency o'er rank and birth, The rich, the brave, the strong; ;« And if despondency weigh down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions then, Despair — thy name is written on The roll of common men.
Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 14 - Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh 14 MARCO BOZZARIS.