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... chiefs were late convened ! 4 Oh ! dome displeasing unto British eye ! With diadem hight foolscap , lo ! a fiend , A little fiend that scoffs incessantly , There sits in parchment robe array'd , and by His side is hung a seal and sable ...
... chiefs were late convened ! 4 Oh ! dome displeasing unto British eye ! With diadem hight foolscap , lo ! a fiend , A little fiend that scoffs incessantly , There sits in parchment robe array'd , and by His side is hung a seal and sable ...
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... chief's unwholesome reign ? No step between submission and a grave ? The rise of rapine and the fall of Spain ? And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom , nor heed the suppliant's appeal ? Is all that desperate valour acts ...
... chief's unwholesome reign ? No step between submission and a grave ? The rise of rapine and the fall of Spain ? And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom , nor heed the suppliant's appeal ? Is all that desperate valour acts ...
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... chief is slain - she fills his fatal post ; Her fellows flee - she checks their base career ; The foe retires - she heads the sallying host : Who can appease like her a lover's ghost ? Who can avenge so well a leader's fall ? What maid ...
... chief is slain - she fills his fatal post ; Her fellows flee - she checks their base career ; The foe retires - she heads the sallying host : Who can appease like her a lover's ghost ? Who can avenge so well a leader's fall ? What maid ...
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... chiefs e'er gain their toils repay . LXXIV . In costly sheen and gaudy cloak array'd , But all a - foot , the light - limb'd Matadore Stands in the centre , eager to invade The lord of lowing herds ; but not before The ground with ...
... chiefs e'er gain their toils repay . LXXIV . In costly sheen and gaudy cloak array'd , But all a - foot , the light - limb'd Matadore Stands in the centre , eager to invade The lord of lowing herds ; but not before The ground with ...
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... chiefs were late convened ! The convention of Cintra was signed in the palace of the Marchese Marialva . The late exploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the follies of Cintra . He has , indeed , done wonders : he has perhaps changed ...
... chiefs were late convened ! The convention of Cintra was signed in the palace of the Marchese Marialva . The late exploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the follies of Cintra . He has , indeed , done wonders : he has perhaps changed ...
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Page 470 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord ! A SPIRIT PASS'D BEFORE ME.
Page 469 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
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Page 102 - Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
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Page 100 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
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Page 106 - Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.