Don Paez: And Other PoemsW.H. Graham, 1847 - 150 páginas |
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Abaco Athwart Bahama Bank bard beam beauty Beauty's gentle daughters beneath billows blood bloom brave breath breeze bright brine carrion crow charms CHORUS dark dashed death deep Don Paez doth drum DUAN earth echo erst fair fair plains flame flash flood foaming Galerius Genius gloom glow grace groans Gulf Stream hath heart heart's oppressed heave heaven howling human incubus land Let the Pibroch liberty light love of Beauty's maid of Roanoke Mammon meadows of Dan mind mountains muse Nature Nature's ne'er night o'er ocean oppressed with love Pibroch of Freedom plain roar rocks rolls rude saddened soul Saint Pierre scenes shade shroud sight sing skies smiles soft song soothes the saddened soul like music stars sweet swell tale tell tempest thee There's nothing soothes thine thou thunder tide trees turtle-dove coos vale volcano War's waters waves ween wild winds wisdom yawl
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Página 108 - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Página 45 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Página 104 - So likewise the number, variety, and greatness of the miracles, wrought for the confirmation of the doctrine delivered by Jesus Christ, carry with them such strong marks of an extraordinary divine power, that the truth of his mission will stand firm and unquestionable, till any one rising up in opposition to him shall do greater miracles than he and his apostles did. For...
Página 93 - beyond all competition, the most beautiful river in the universe, whether we consider it for its meandering course through an immense region of forests, for its clean and elegant banks, which afford innumerable delightful situations for cities, villages and improved farms: or for those many other advantages, which truly entitle it to the name originally given it by the French, of La Belle Riviere.
Página xii - Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, , Maternal Nature ! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine ? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties ; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From...
Página xii - Stunn'd with th' eternal turbulence of waves; Lo! with dim eyes, that never learn'd to smile, And trembling hands, the famish'd native craves Of Heaven his wretched fare: shivering in caves, Or scorch'd on rocks, he pines from day to day; But science gives the word; and lo! he braves The surge and tempest, lighted by her ray, And to a happier land wafts merrily away.
Página 104 - ... or more exalted understanding. This is one of those palpable truths and trials, of which all mankind are judges ; and there needs no assistance of learning, no deep thought, to come to a certainty in it. Such care has God taken that no pretended revelation should stand in competition with what is truly divine, that we need but open our eyes to see and be sure which came from him.
Página 104 - This is one of those palpable truths and trials, of which all mankind are judges; and there needs no assistance of learning, no deep thought, to come to a certainty in it. Such care has God taken that no pretended revelation should stand in competition with what is truly divine, that we need but open our eyes to see and be sure which came from him. The marks of his over-ruling power accompany it; and therefore to this day we find, that wherever the Gospel comes, it prevails to the beating down the...
Página 83 - In that year, however, on the zgth of September, it began to burn with furious explofions, ruining entirely the fugar work, and the neighbouring village of Guacana : and from that time continued to emit fire and burning rocks in fuch quantities, that the erupted matters in fix years had formed themfelves into three high mountains, nfarly fix miles in circumference.
Página xii - ... wou'd fpy ! While with a gen'rous warmth he ftrove to hide, Nay vindicate, the fault his judgment fpied. So pleas'd, cou'd he detect a happy line, That he wou'd fancy merit ev'n in mine.