The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence, Volume 2J. Ballantyne and Company, 1810 |
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ANNA SEWARD Bard beams beauteous beauty bend beneath bids blest bloom bosom bowers breast breathe bright brow charms Cher clouds cold dark dart DAVID GARRICK dear deep dread e'en EMIRA EMMA eternal EUGENIO ev'ry eyes fair fair brow fame fate fire flame flowers fond friendship gale gay bowers gaze Genius gentle gild glade glance gloom glow grace grief grove hand heart Honora hope hour impart Lichfield LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL light lone LOUISA lov'd lyre maid MICHAEL BAXTER mild mind Monody morn mourn muse ne'er NEEDWOOD FOREST night Nymph o'er pain pale peace pensive plain poem poetic pride rise rocks rose round sacred scene scorn shade shed shining sighs smiles soft song soul spirit strain stream sweet sweet bands tear tender thee thine thou trembling Twas vale vermil vex'd virtues warm wave WILLIAM HAYLEY winds woes youth
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Página 44 - Tis not his sails ! — thy husband comes no more ! His bones now whiten an accursed shore ! — Retire,— for hark ! the seagull shrieking soars, The lurid atmosphere portentous...
Página 145 - The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise. To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.
Página 145 - Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air?
Página 35 - While o'er the deep, in many a dreadful form, The giant Danger howls along the storm. Furling the iron sails with numbed hands, Firm on the deck the great Adventurer stands ; Round glitt'ring mountains hears the billows rave, And the vast ruin thunder on the wave.
Página 32 - Mid the pale summer of the polar skies? — IT WAS HUMANITY! — on coasts unknown, The shiv'ring natives of the frozen zone, And the swart Indian, as he faintly strays * Where Cancer reddens in the solar blaze,' She bade him seek: — on each inclement shore Plant the rich seeds of her exhaustless store ; Unite the savage hearts, and hostile hands, In the firm compact of her gentle bands ; Strew her soft comforts o'er the barren plain, Sing her sweet lays, and consecrate her fame.
Página 75 - I have a mother and three sisters, to whom the value of my commission would be an object, as the loss of Grenada has much affected their income. It is needless to be more explicit on this subject ; I am persuaded of your Excellency's goodness.
Página 93 - Marlborough brandishing a truncheon upon a sign-post, surrounded with types and emblems, and canopied with cornucopias that disembogue their stores upon his head ; Mercuries reclined upon bales of goods ; Genii playing with pens, ink, and paper ; while, in perspective, his gorgeous vessels, " launched on the bosom of the silver Thames," are wafting to distant lands the produce of this commercial nation.
Página 93 - I know she has a fervent wish to see me a quill-driver, I must tell her, that I begin, as people are wont to do, to look upon my future profession with great partiality. I no longer see it in so disadvantageous a light.
Página 92 - ... else I should keep him aloof, for his heart is formed of those affectionate materials, so dear to the ingenuous taste of Julia and her Honora. I sympathize in your resentment against the canonical Dons, who stumpify the heads of those good green people, beneath whose friendly shade so many of your happiest hours have glided away, — but they defy them; let them stumpify as much as they please, time will repair the mischief, — their verdant arms will again extend, and invite you to their shelter....
Página 87 - I can well conceive the emotions of joy which their first appearance, from the neighbouring hills, excites after absence ; they seem to welcome you home, and invite you to reiterate those hours of happiness, of which they are a species of monument. I shall have an eternal love and reverence for them. Never shall I forget the joy that danced in Honora's eyes, when she first showed them to me from Needwood Forest on our return with you from Buxton to Lichfield.