The hopes of matrimony, and other poemsB. Groombridge, and G. Ridge, Sheffield, 1836 - 128 pages |
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adorn angel appear bard beauty behold birth bless blest bloom breast bright CASTLETON Celibacy charms CHATSWORTH cherish'd Christ's Hospital confest connubial hope courtship crown'd cup of charity death delight doth e'en e'er earth endeared fair fame fancy's feeling filial flowers friends friendship glorious grace green hand happy hath Health heart heaven hills honour hopes and fears HOPES OF MATRIMONY hour howe'er human Hymen life's love to hear Love's lyre mankind Marriage midst mitre mother muse nature's ne'er nuptial bliss nurse o'er Paradise pass'd Perchance perish'd ploughshare poet's prelate prescience pride proud pure race raptures reign rich RIVER DERWENT round rustic scene seem'd shed SHEFFIELD Sheffield Park shine sire smile song soul spirit spread stood storm stream STREAMLET sublime sweet sweetest thee theme thought thrice Tis thine trees troth truth vale village wedded wedlock woman's young youth
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Page iii - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range : by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities . Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page vii - Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself. Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined, and dies in singularity...
Page viii - ... here kindness is spread abroad, and love is united and made firm as a centre: marriage is the nursery of heaven; the virgin sends prayers to God, but she carries but one soul to Him: but the state of marriage fills up the numbers of the elect, and hath in it the labour of love, and the delicacies of friendship, the blessing of society, and the union of hands and hearts...
Page viii - God, but she carries but one soul to him ; but the state of marriage fills up the numbers of the elect, and hath in it the labour of love, and the delicacies of friendship, the blessing of society, and the union of hands and hearts ; it hath in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but...
Page 21 - Though few now taste thee unimpair'd and pure, Or tasting long enjoy thee! too infirm, Or too incautious, to preserve thy sweets Unmix'd with drops of bitter, which neglect Or temper sheds into thy crystal cup ; Thou art the nurse of Virtue, in thine arms She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is, Heav'n-born, and destin'd to the skies again.
Page 1 - Attractive, human, rational, love still: In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges ; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure: for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Page 63 - The Christ's Hospital or Blue-coat boy has a distinctive character of his own, as far removed from the abject qualities of a common charity boy as it is from the disgusting forwardness of a lad brought up at some other of the public schools.
Page 28 - Hither, howe'er th' unchanging Briton roam, Hope flies for country, friendship, wife, and home. How fair is HOME, in fancy's picturing theme, In WEDDED LIFE, in LOVE'S romantic dream ! Thence springs each hope ; there every wish returns, Pure as the flame, that upward, heavenward, burns ; There sits the WIFE, whose radiant smile is given, The daily sun of the domestic heaven ; And when calm evening sheds a secret power, Her looks of love emparadise the hour ; While children round, a beauteous train,...
Page 106 - If we are to believe travellers, in no country is the domestic culture of flowers so much attended to as in our own. We trust this will always be a prevailing taste with us. There is something pure and refreshing in the appearance of plants in a room ; and watched and waited on, as they generally are, by the gentler sex, they are links in many pleasant associations. They are the cherished favourites of our mothers, wives, sisters, and friends not less dear, and connect themselves, in our minds, with...
Page 30 - Medicean name. On thy dear lap, oh Britain ! first I drew The vital air, and life's warm transports knew ; An English mother bore me, and caress'd ; And with the stream of life, upon her breast I drew the patriot passion, still, which reigns Pure as the blood from those maternal veins : Then oh, forgive the hand that would entwine, With that dear mother's worth, one grateful line ! And...