The Demons of the Wind: And Other PoemsSouthgate, 1838 - 120 pages |
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Afric's Ashur's aspen balmy beams beneath blast bliss bloom breast breath breath'd breeze bright brow burning sand cheer clay cloud corpse curse dark dead death decay demon doom dream earth entomb Ev'n fades fair fairy fancy fetters fiend fierce fiercest flame fled flies gale gaze genial giant glance gleam gloom glow grave hand hath heart Heaven Hell hope hour joy'd life's light mark'd mind mirth monarch morning mortal mouldering mourn nature's ne'er neath nought o'er ocean's onward pain pass'd passed passions pent pestilence phantom plain prey pride rage rainbow's raptured reign reign in Hell repose Resurgam rise RIZPAH scene seraph sight sleep smile sped spirits spray tell tempest thee thou tint toil tomb torpid Twas tyrant vault venom visions vulture wake warrior wave weep wild WIND withering woes worm young love youth
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Page 100 - And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by. day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Page 51 - Has he bid you buy and sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky? Ask him, if your knotted scourges, Fetters, blood-extorting screws, Are the means, which duty urges Agents of his will to use ? "Hark! he answers. Wild tornadoes, Strewing yonder sea with wrecks, Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which he speaks. He, foreseeing what vexations Afric's sons should undergo, Fix'd their tyrant's habitations Where his whirlwinds answer — No.
Page 76 - Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful ; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Page 77 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 55 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide; — The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 108 - A king sate on a rocky brow, Which looks o'er sea.born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations ;—all were his ! He counted them at break of day, But when the sun set, where were they...
Page 11 - THERE are spirits of the air, And genii of the evening breeze, And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fair As star-beams among twilight trees : — Such lovely ministers to meet Oft hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet. With mountain winds, and babbling springs, And moonlight seas, that are the voice Of these inexplicable things Thou didst hold commune, and rejoice...