Poems, Volum 1W. Lewis, 1814 - 480 sider |
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Side 11
... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what pow'r maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains ? That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets ...
... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what pow'r maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains ? That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets ...
Side 16
... theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee th ' ennobling pow'rs of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires ; Place me where winter breathes his keenest ...
... theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee th ' ennobling pow'rs of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires ; Place me where winter breathes his keenest ...
Side 25
... theme , that others never feel , If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line , VOL . 1 . E ། . The Power of the Muse . But , if a ...
... theme , that others never feel , If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line , VOL . 1 . E ། . The Power of the Muse . But , if a ...
Side 29
... theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipt - cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and then- Stoop'd from its highest pitch to pounce a wren . As if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread . Ages elaps'd ...
... theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipt - cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and then- Stoop'd from its highest pitch to pounce a wren . As if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread . Ages elaps'd ...
Side 31
... theme ; That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love , Man lavish'd all his thoughts on human things- The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings : But still , while virtue kindled his delight ...
... theme ; That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love , Man lavish'd all his thoughts on human things- The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings : But still , while virtue kindled his delight ...
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