The Gloucestershire garland, a selection of poetic flowers

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Página 132 - ones reply to his call. And the swallow sings sweet from her nest in the wall« A father bends o'er him with looks of delight; His cheek is impearl'd with a mother's warm tear, And the lips of the boy in a love-kiss unite With the lips of the maid whom his bosom holds
Página 132 - He springs from his hammock—he flies to the deck, Amazement confronts him with images dire ; Wild winds and mad waves drive the vessel a wreck. The masts fly in splinters, the shrouds are on fire ! O sailor boy ! woe to thy dream of delight! In darkness dissolves the gay
Página 170 - THERE is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary Pilgrims found; They softly lie, and sweetly sleep, Low in the ground. The storm that wrecks the winter sky,
Página 148 - was shook. I saw thee gaze upon my face, Yet meet with no confusion there ^ One only feeling could'st thou trace—* The sullen calmness of Despair. Away ! away! my early dream Remembrance never must awake ; Oh ! where is Lethe's fabled stream ? My foolish heart be still, or break.
Página 173 - found; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground. " The Soul, of origin divine, GOD's glorious image freed from clay, In Heaven's eternal sphere shall shine, A star of day {
Página 173 - He wounds them for his mercy's sake, He wounds to heal • " Humbled beneath his mighty hand, Prostrate his Providence adore : • Tis done !—Arise! he bids thee stand, To fall no more, " Now, Traveller in the vale of tears ! To realms of everlasting light. Through Time's dark wilderness of years. Pursue thy flight, " There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary Pilgrim's found;
Página 142 - Who should wander the ruins about " I myself like a school-boy should tremble to' hear " The hoarse ivy shake over my head; " And could fancy I saw, half persuaded by Fear, " Some ugly old Abbot's white spirit appear, " For this wind might awaken the dead.
Página 93 - what new scenes and changes must we pass.' Th' unchanging state in prospect lies before me, But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold, if
Página 200 - Good morrow, father Isaac!" said the next: " Good morrow, father Jacob !" cried the last. " I am neither Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob," replied the old gentleman, " but Saul, the son of Kish, who went out to seek his father's asses ; and lo,
Página 183 - Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that is humble might hope for it here, But the

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