The Poetic RosaryPartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 264 pages |
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Alice beauty behold bird Blandford bless blest bower brave breast bright brooklet BUCKTON CASTLE Calais calm charms cheer child Cloth clouds Court of Peace crowd dear delight ditto dread shadow dream drops of light earnest earth EBENEZER ELLIOTT England eyes face fair faithful feel flowers foxglove French Revolution friends gaze genial gentle Gilbert glad gleam gloom glorious glory glow golden land grace hand hath heart Heaven hills hope hour land of Poesy light London look mind moorlands mother mountain Muses Nature Nature's night o'er pain passionate Pauline peace PERONNE Philip Poet poetry poor rills Robin round seemed shadow silent sings smile song sorrow soul spirit stray streams sweet tears thee things thou art thought three glorious days toil town Treaty of Tilsit trees unto vale voice waves weary Whilst wild winds wings wonderful words Zoana
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Page 29 - She took him by the passive hand, And up the moonlit stair She led him, to their bridal bed, With mute and mournful air ; She turned the cover down, and there, In grave-like garments dressed, Lay the Twin Children of their love, In death's serenest rest !
Page 44 - With him wheresoe'er he wanders, Wheresoe'er his feet abide ; One to warn him when he darkleth, And rebuke him if he stray ; — One to leave him to his nature, And so let him go his way...
Page 30 - But thou didst teach me to resign " What GOD alone can claim ; " He giveth, and He takes away, — " Blest be His holy Name !" The father gazed upon his Babes, — The mother drooped apart, While all the Woman's sorrow gushed From her o'erburdened heart ; And with the striving of her grief, Which wrung the tears she shed, Were mingled low and loving words To the unconscious dead. When the sad Sire had looked his fill, He veiled each breathless face, And down in self-abasement bowed, For comfort and...
Page 56 - Science arose from his thraldom, and stole From the keeping of nature new gifts for the soul ; Then valorous Enterprise waved his proud hand, And might and magnificence covered the land ; Then Commerce, from bonds of oppression set free, Linked country to country, and sea unto sea ; Then Art, with a dream-like devotion, refined Into beauty and purity, matter and mind ; Then...
Page 44 - Wheresoe'er his feet abide. One to warn him when he darkleth, And rebuke him if he stray : One to leave him to his nature, And so let him go his way. '• Two recording spirits, reading All his life's minutest part. Looking in his soul, and listening To the beatings of his heart. Each with pen of fire electric. Writes the good or evil wrought ; Writes with truth that adds not, errs not, Purpose, action, word, and thought.
Page 113 - Who hath kindled one's soul into love ; — The sound of the blithe marriage-bell To the bride who has given her heart, And the words of her husband, that tell His devotion will never depart. The birth of a child, when we feel We can foster it, guard it, and guide ; While the smiles of its mother reveal Her matchless affection and pride ; — Its first broken syllables, made More closely our bosoms to bind, And its up-growing beauty, display'd In the promising dawn of its mind ; — The first pleasant...
Page 45 - Good beyond an angel's doubt, — Such remains for aye and ever And cannot be blotted out. One (severe and silent Watcher!) Noteth every crime and guile, Writes it with a holy duty, Seals it not, but waits awhile ; If the evil-doer cry not, "God forgive me!
Page 27 - Sabbath night. He stretched his limbs upon the hearth. Before its friendly blaze, And conjured up mixed memories Of gay and gloomy days; And felt that none of gentle soul, However far he roam, Can e'er forego, can e'er forget, The quiet joys of home. " Bring me my children !" cried the sire, With eager, earnest tone ; " I long to press them, and to mark How lovely they have grown ; Twelve weary months have passed away Since I went o'er the sea, To feel how sad and lone I was Without my babes and...
Page 57 - And his heart opened out at the touch of her wing ; In the senate she governed with eloquent awe, She swayed in the council, she lived in the law ; In the prison, mid apathy, terror, and gloom, To the wretch who lay waiting the word of his doom, She whispered of Hope, breathed a calm o'er his...