The works of mrs Hemans; with a memoir of her life, by her sister [H.M. Owen]. |
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... soon ceased to be cared for , and she longed to rejoin her younger brother † and sister in their favourite rural haunts and amusements - the nuttery wood , the beloved apple - tree , the old arbour , with its swing , the post - office ...
... soon ceased to be cared for , and she longed to rejoin her younger brother † and sister in their favourite rural haunts and amusements - the nuttery wood , the beloved apple - tree , the old arbour , with its swing , the post - office ...
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... soon we'll meet again , Free from sorrow , care , and pain ; Soon again we'll rise with dawn , To roam the verdant dewy lawn ; Soon the budding leaves we'll hail , Or wander through the well - known vale ; Or weave the smiling wreath of ...
... soon we'll meet again , Free from sorrow , care , and pain ; Soon again we'll rise with dawn , To roam the verdant dewy lawn ; Soon the budding leaves we'll hail , Or wander through the well - known vale ; Or weave the smiling wreath of ...
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... soon rose above it , and her effusions continued to be poured forth as spontaneously as the song of the skylark . New sources of inspiration were now opening to her view . Birthday addresses , songs by the seashore , and invocations to ...
... soon rose above it , and her effusions continued to be poured forth as spontaneously as the song of the skylark . New sources of inspiration were now opening to her view . Birthday addresses , songs by the seashore , and invocations to ...
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... of both parties seemed so entirely to depend . They soon afterwards took up their residence at Daventry , Captain Hemans having own been appointed Adjutant to the Northamptonshire Local Militia . 24 MEMOIR OF MRS HEMANS .
... of both parties seemed so entirely to depend . They soon afterwards took up their residence at Daventry , Captain Hemans having own been appointed Adjutant to the Northamptonshire Local Militia . 24 MEMOIR OF MRS HEMANS .
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... soon Came riding on the bright and silver moon , Whose radiant heavenly ark , Made all the clouds beyond her influence seem E'en more than doubly dark , Mourning , all widowed of her glorious beam . COWLEY . Amongst the very few ...
... soon Came riding on the bright and silver moon , Whose radiant heavenly ark , Made all the clouds beyond her influence seem E'en more than doubly dark , Mourning , all widowed of her glorious beam . COWLEY . Amongst the very few ...
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Página 185 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 307 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Página 12 - SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn: A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 86 - His steps are not upon thy paths— thy fields Are not a spoil for him— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Página 300 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall . wound, [bound ; | Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly XXI.
Página 84 - The earth is every day overspread with the veil of night for the same reason as the cages of birds are darkened — viz. that we may the more readily apprehend the higher harmonies of thought in the hush and quiet of darkness. Thoughts which day turns into smoke and mist stand about us in the night as lights and flames : even as the column which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius in the daytime appears a pillar of cloud but by night a pillar of fire.
Página 311 - midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic ages grey Pour their fair children forth ; and hamlets low, With whose thick orchard-blooms the soft winds play, Send out their inmates in a happy flow, Like a freed vernal stream.
Página 15 - ... the earth. The immortal old man had five great wounds in his happiness — five worms that gnawed for ever at his heart : he was unhappy in spring-time, because that is a season of hope, and rich with phantoms of far happier days than any which this aceldama of earth can realize. He was unhappy at the sound of music, which dilates the heart of man into its whole capacity for the infinite, and he cried aloud — "Away, away ! Thou speakest of things which throughout my endless life I have found...
Página 314 - Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit! rest thee now! E'en while with ours thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust, to its narrow house beneath! Soul, to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Página 285 - ... industry, a great blessing ; and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives ; but that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian...