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" This black den which rocks emboss, Overgrown with eldest moss: The rude portals that give light More to terror than delight; This my chamber of neglect, Walled about with disrespect. From all these, and this dull air, A fit object for despair, She hath... "
The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier: Poems of nature: poems subjective ... - Page 32
by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889
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Gathered riches from the older poets, A.D. 1340-1699 [ed. by W.K.].

W. K. - 1865 - 238 pages
...embosse, Overgrown with eldest moss, The rude portals that give light, More to terror than delight, From all these, and this dull air, A fit object for...taught me, by her might, To draw comfort and delight ; Therefore, thou pure earthly bliss, I will cherish thee for this. WITHER. IDtfoets WHEN all the year...
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Gathered riches from the older poets, A.D. 1340-1699 [ed. by W.K.].

W. K. - 1865 - 260 pages
...embosse, Overgrown with eldest moss, The rude portals that give light, More to terror than delight, From all these, and this dull air, A fit object for...taught me, by her might, To draw comfort and delight ; Therefore, thou pure earthly bliss, I will cherish thee for this. WITHER. JDti>crs WHEN all the year...
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...waves Beating on these hollow caves ; This black den, which rocks emboss, Overgrown with eldest moss ; The rude portals, that give light More to terror than...taught me by her might To draw comfort and delight. Therefore, thou, best earthly bliss, I will cherish thee for this. Poesy, thou svveet'st content That...
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Hymn-writers and Their Hymns

Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1867 - 512 pages
...waves, Beating in these hollow caves ; This black den which rocks emboss, Overgrown with eldest moss ; The rude portals that give light More to terror than...taught me by her might To draw comfort and delight. Therefore, thou best earthly bliss, I will cherish thee for this. Well sung, Wither ! He has broken...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...This black den which rocks emboss, Overgrown with eldest moss ; The rude portals that give sight 20 More to terror than delight ; This my chamber of neglect,...these and this dull air, A fit object for despair, 25 She hath taught by her might To draw comfort and delight. 15. Strange, Fr. etrange, It. stranio,...
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Friends Intelligencer: A Religious and Family Journal, Volume 25

1869 - 878 pages
...about with disrespect, — From all these, and this dull air, A fit object of despair, She hath tanght me by her might, To draw comfort and delight." That stony cell of his was to him like the rock of Paden-aram to the wandering Patriarch. He saw angels ascending and descending. The House Beautiful...
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Class-book of English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...The rude portals that give light, More to terror than delight ; This my chamber of neglect, Wall'd about with disrespect ; From all these, and this dull...taught me by her might, To draw comfort and delight. Therefore thou best earthly bliss, I will cherish thee for this. Pocsic, thou swect'st content That...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...waves Beating on these hollow caves, This black den, which rocks emboss Overgrown with eldest moss; The rude portals that give light More to terror than...and this dull air A fit object for despair, She hath brought me by her might To draw comfort and delight. Though thon bo to them a scorn That for naught...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 3-4

Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...delight, This my chamber of neglect Wall'd about with disrespect. From all these, and this dull air, A tit gal spoke, and Ossian sung. Night fell ; and dark and darker giew T ami delight. Therefore then, best earthly bliss, I will cherish thee for this! Poesy, thou sweet'st...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...emboss Overgrown with eldest moss; The rude portals which give light More to terror than delight l'his my chamber of Neglect, Walled about with Disrespect;...taught me by her might To draw comfort and delight. Therefore, ihou best earthly bliss, I will cherish thee for this; Poesy, thou sweet'st content, That...
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