The Remains of Henry Kirke White ..., Volume 1Contains poetry, letters and literary criticism |
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... charm the weary hour , And many a lonely night has ' guiled , When even pain has own'd , and smiled , Its fascinating power . II . Yet , oh my Lyre ! the busy crowd Will little heed thy simple tones : Them mightier minstrels harping ...
... charm the weary hour , And many a lonely night has ' guiled , When even pain has own'd , and smiled , Its fascinating power . II . Yet , oh my Lyre ! the busy crowd Will little heed thy simple tones : Them mightier minstrels harping ...
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... charms ? Why clasp the syren Pleasure to his arms ; And suck deep draughts of her voluptuous breath , Though fraught with ruin , infamy , and death ? Could he who thus to vile enjoyment clings , Know what calm joy from purer sources ...
... charms ? Why clasp the syren Pleasure to his arms ; And suck deep draughts of her voluptuous breath , Though fraught with ruin , infamy , and death ? Could he who thus to vile enjoyment clings , Know what calm joy from purer sources ...
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... charms , Fain would I clasp for ever in my arms ! l'hine are the sweets which never , never sate , Thine still remain ... charm , by sages often told , Converting all it touches into gold . Content can soothe , where'er by fortune placed ...
... charms , Fain would I clasp for ever in my arms ! l'hine are the sweets which never , never sate , Thine still remain ... charm , by sages often told , Converting all it touches into gold . Content can soothe , where'er by fortune placed ...
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... charm , No future recantation can disarm , The right vindictive does the fates involve , No tears can move it , no regrets dissolve . ' She ceased . The death - bird gave a disma , cry , The river moan'd , the wild gale whistled by ...
... charm , No future recantation can disarm , The right vindictive does the fates involve , No tears can move it , no regrets dissolve . ' She ceased . The death - bird gave a disma , cry , The river moan'd , the wild gale whistled by ...
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... charm'd my listening ear , That tale , which bade me find redoubled sweets In the drear silence of these dark retreats , And even now , with melancholy power , Adds a new pleasure to the lonely hour . ' Mid all the charms by magic ...
... charm'd my listening ear , That tale , which bade me find redoubled sweets In the drear silence of these dark retreats , And even now , with melancholy power , Adds a new pleasure to the lonely hour . ' Mid all the charms by magic ...
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art thou beneath breast BROTHER NEVILLE calm CAPEL LOFFT charm cheek Clifton Grove clouds cold dark DEAR NEVILLE death deep delight distant dost drear DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE eternal fancy fear feel gale genius gloom Gondoline grace GRATEFUL SERVANT grave H. K. WHITE happy harp hath head hear heard heart heaven HENRY KIRKE WHITE holy honours hope hour John Dillon John's leave letter light lonely lyre maid melancholy mind moon mortal mother mournful muse never night Nottingham o'er pain pale peace pensive pleasure poems poet Quatorzain rest round scene shade sigh silent Sizar sleep slumbers smile soft solemn song SONNET soon sorrow soul sound spirit Star of Bethlehem storm sublime sweet tear tell thee thine things thou thought throne twas vale wandering wave weary weep wild winds Winteringham youth
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Page 78 - When, marshalled on the nightly plain, The glittering host bestud the sky, One Star alone, of all the train, Can fix the sinner's wandering eye. Hark ! hark ! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem ; But one alone the Saviour speaks, It is the star of Bethlehem.
Page 33 - Winter's sway, And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight, Thee on this bank he threw To mark his victory. In this low vale, the promise of the year, Serene, thou openest to the nipping gale, Unnoticed and alone, Thy tender elegance. So virtue blooms, brought forth amid the storms Of chill adversity, in some lone walk Of life she rears her head, Obscure and unobserved; While every bleaching breeze that on her blows, Chastens her spotless purity of breast, And hardens her to bear Serene the ills...
Page xxi - Twas thine own Genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 139 - Storms and tempests, floods and rains, Stern despoilers of the plains, Hence, away, the season flee, Foes to light-heart jollity: May no winds careering high Drive the clouds along the sky, But may all nature smile with aspect boon, When in the heavens thou...
Page 78 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace.
Page 333 - All nature reels. Till Nature's King, who oft Amid tempestuous darkness dwells alone, And on the wings of the careering wind Walks dreadfully serene, commands a calm; Then, straight, air, sea, and earth, are hush'd at once.
Page 52 - O'er many a distant foreign land; Each place, each province I have tried, And sung and danced my saraband.
Page 28 - The hours devoted by the world to rest, And needful to recruit exhausted nature ? Say, can the voice of narrow Fame repay The loss of health ? or can the hope of glory Lend a new throb unto my languid heart, Cool, even now, my feverish aching brow...
Page 77 - And wilt thou bend a listening ear, To praises low as ours ? Thou wilt! for thou dost love to hear The song which meekness pours.
Page 34 - GIVE me a cottage on some Cambrian wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days, And, by the beauties of the scene beguiled, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his ways. While on the rock I mark the browsing goat, List to the...