English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 21870 |
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... seem'd , Deign to descend now lower , and relate What may no less perhaps avail us known , 85 How first began this heav'n which we behold Distant so high , with moving fires adorn'd Innumerable , and this which yields or fills All space ...
... seem'd , Deign to descend now lower , and relate What may no less perhaps avail us known , 85 How first began this heav'n which we behold Distant so high , with moving fires adorn'd Innumerable , and this which yields or fills All space ...
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... Seem'd like to Heav'n , a seat where gods might dwell , Or wander with delight , and love to haunt Her sacred shades : though God had yet not rain'd Upon the Earth , and man to till the ground None was , but from the earth a dewy mist ...
... Seem'd like to Heav'n , a seat where gods might dwell , Or wander with delight , and love to haunt Her sacred shades : though God had yet not rain'd Upon the Earth , and man to till the ground None was , but from the earth a dewy mist ...
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... seems a moving land , and at his gills Draws in , and at his trunk spouts out a sea . 405 410 415 Meanwhile the tepid caves , and fens and shores Their brood as numerous hatch , from the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth ...
... seems a moving land , and at his gills Draws in , and at his trunk spouts out a sea . 405 410 415 Meanwhile the tepid caves , and fens and shores Their brood as numerous hatch , from the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth ...
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... magnitudes , this Earth , a spot , a grain , An atom , with the firmament compar'd , And all her number'd stars , that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible ( for such 5 ΙΟ 15 Their distance argues , and their swift return Diurnal )
... magnitudes , this Earth , a spot , a grain , An atom , with the firmament compar'd , And all her number'd stars , that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible ( for such 5 ΙΟ 15 Their distance argues , and their swift return Diurnal )
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... seem'd Entring on studious thoughts abstruse , which Eve Perceiving where she sat retir'd in sight , With lowliness majestic from her seat , 25 30 135 40 And grace that won who saw to wish her stay , Rose , and went forth among her ...
... seem'd Entring on studious thoughts abstruse , which Eve Perceiving where she sat retir'd in sight , With lowliness majestic from her seat , 25 30 135 40 And grace that won who saw to wish her stay , Rose , and went forth among her ...
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Page 60 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 4 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 207 - Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease, • Ease to the body some, none to the mind From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging, and present Times past, what once I was, and what am now.
Page 318 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 210 - And buried ; but, O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave ; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 16 - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief •Of all his works : therefore the omnipotent Eternal Father, for where is not he Present?
Page 207 - A LITTLE onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade. There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily...
Page 208 - Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt Divine prediction...
Page 35 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 142 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...