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... Light came from heaven , -the magnet was reveal'd , A surer star to guide the seaman's eye Than the pale glory of the northern sky ; Alike ordain'd to shine by night and day , Through calm and tempest , with unsetting ray ; Where'er the ...
... Light came from heaven , -the magnet was reveal'd , A surer star to guide the seaman's eye Than the pale glory of the northern sky ; Alike ordain'd to shine by night and day , Through calm and tempest , with unsetting ray ; Where'er the ...
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... light , Day after day , roll'd down the gulph of night , There seem'd one waste of waters : -long in vain His spirit brooded o'er the Atlantic main ; When sudden , as creation burst from nought , Sprang a new world through his ...
... light , Day after day , roll'd down the gulph of night , There seem'd one waste of waters : -long in vain His spirit brooded o'er the Atlantic main ; When sudden , as creation burst from nought , Sprang a new world through his ...
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... light sojourns till our morrow rise ! ' Thoughtful he wander'd on the beach alone ; Mild o'er the deep the vesper planet shone , The eye of evening , brightening through the west Till the sweet moment when it shut to rest : ' Whither ...
... light sojourns till our morrow rise ! ' Thoughtful he wander'd on the beach alone ; Mild o'er the deep the vesper planet shone , The eye of evening , brightening through the west Till the sweet moment when it shut to rest : ' Whither ...
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... himself , on shadowy pinions borne , Fled o'er the mighty waters , and the morn Danced on the mountains : - " Lights of heaven ! ' he cried , ' Lead on ; -I go to win a glorious bride ; 6 Fearless o'er gulphs unknown I urge my way , 7.
... himself , on shadowy pinions borne , Fled o'er the mighty waters , and the morn Danced on the mountains : - " Lights of heaven ! ' he cried , ' Lead on ; -I go to win a glorious bride ; 6 Fearless o'er gulphs unknown I urge my way , 7.
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... light , Dawn'd the new world on his enraptured sight : Not Adam , loosen❜d from the encumbering earth , Waked by the breath of God to instant birth , With sweeter , wilder wonder gazed around , When life within , and light without he ...
... light , Dawn'd the new world on his enraptured sight : Not Adam , loosen❜d from the encumbering earth , Waked by the breath of God to instant birth , With sweeter , wilder wonder gazed around , When life within , and light without he ...
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Adorn'd Africa age to age anguish beauty behold beneath Bilberries blest bloom BOLEHILL breast breath Casas Charibbean clime Cowslip Creole Planter dark death Derbyshire Dr Pinkard's Notes Dutch Guiana earth eternal fields and woods final doom fire flood flowers forelock o'er glory grave Greenland gulph heart heaven hope hyæna isles joys kiss her tripping light little neck lyre midst milk-maid's path Moravian Brethren morn mountains Mungo Parke Nature's graceful hand Negro night O'er coppice o'er his mane o'er pasture land path they stand peace plains race rest rience roll'd round Scatter'd by Nature's scene scythe shade shine shore skies Slave Trade smiled song soul Spain spirit Spring spurn'd star stoops his little sublime suffering Surinam surse sweet thee thine thou tomb Tossing his forelock trees turn'd vernal voice waves West Indies Where'er wild Willow wind winter's farm-yard bondage woes yellow fever
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Page 32 - Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 31 - The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole...
Page 79 - Molian lyre The winds of dark November stray, Touch the quick nerve of every wire, And on its magic pulses play ;— Till all the air around, Mysterious murmurs fill, A strange bewildering dream of sound, Most heavenly sweet, — yet mournful still.
Page 33 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. " Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found ?" Art thou a man ? — a patriot ? — look around ; Oh, thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home...
Page 7 - Soft fell the shades, till Cynthia's slender bow Crested the farthest wave, then sunk below: "Tell me, resplendent guardian of the night, Circling the sphere in thy perennial flight, What secret path of heaven thy smiles adorn, What nameless sea reflects thy gleaming horn ?
Page 34 - Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Page 102 - The wind that wanders o'er this tomb Was once his vital breath. The roving wind shall pass away, The warming sun forsake the sky ; Thy Brother, in that dreadful day, Shall live, — and never die. THE OLD MAN'S SONG. SHALL Man of frail fruition boast ? Shall life be counted dear, Oft but a moment, and, at most, A momentary year ? There...
Page 104 - JELL me, thou dust beneath my feet, Thou dust that once hadst breath ! Tell me how many mortals meet In this small hill of death ? The Mole, that scoops with curious toil Her subterranean bed, Thinks not she ploughs a human soil, And mines among the dead.
Page 42 - His frame, — a fungus form, of dunghill birth, That taints the air, and rots above the earth ; His soul ; — has he a soul, whose sensual breast Of selfish passions is a serpent's nest ? Who follows headlong, ignorant, and blind, The vague...
Page 125 - HE sought his sire from shore to shore, He sought him day by day ; The prow he track'd was seen no more, Breasting the ocean-spray ; Yet, as the winds his voyage sped, He sail'd above his father's head, Unconscious where it lay, Deep, deep beneath the rolling main ; - — He sought his sire ; he sought in vain. Son of the brave ! no longer weep ; Still with affection true, Along...