Contemplation: A Poem : with Tales, and Other Poetical CompositionsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - 217 páginas |
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... STORM , And with increasing swell and louder voice Impetuous roars and bears upon its wing Th ' uprooted forest and the Planter's hopes . The trembling houses to their bases shake , Instead of shelter threat'ning with a grave , A living ...
... STORM , And with increasing swell and louder voice Impetuous roars and bears upon its wing Th ' uprooted forest and the Planter's hopes . The trembling houses to their bases shake , Instead of shelter threat'ning with a grave , A living ...
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... storm - while borne afar , 125 Huge beams and burning rafters wing the air . Nor yet is full O miserable man ! The measure of thy woes - beneath thy feet , The deep foundations of the solid earth Give way , B 6 . CONTEMPLATION . 11.
... storm - while borne afar , 125 Huge beams and burning rafters wing the air . Nor yet is full O miserable man ! The measure of thy woes - beneath thy feet , The deep foundations of the solid earth Give way , B 6 . CONTEMPLATION . 11.
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... storm subsides - the clouds dissolve in air , And streaks of light proclaim the wish'd for day . Nor rises now the sun as yester morn , Gilding with chearful ray the smiling face Of fair Creation - but o'er Nature's wreck 140 Beams ...
... storm subsides - the clouds dissolve in air , And streaks of light proclaim the wish'd for day . Nor rises now the sun as yester morn , Gilding with chearful ray the smiling face Of fair Creation - but o'er Nature's wreck 140 Beams ...
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... paths A deeper colour frowns - aloft in air The sea birds wheeling round with piercing cry , Proclaim a storm - the waves , which lately crept 120 125 130 Stealing with gentle murmurs on the shore , Lift high c 2 CONTEMPLATION . 27.
... paths A deeper colour frowns - aloft in air The sea birds wheeling round with piercing cry , Proclaim a storm - the waves , which lately crept 120 125 130 Stealing with gentle murmurs on the shore , Lift high c 2 CONTEMPLATION . 27.
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... storm ; The minute guns , sad signals of distress , At first but faintly heard - the dubious sound , Is scarce distinguish'd from the awful peal 140 Of distant thunder - nearer and nearer now 145 Bursts on the ear the intermitting roar ...
... storm ; The minute guns , sad signals of distress , At first but faintly heard - the dubious sound , Is scarce distinguish'd from the awful peal 140 Of distant thunder - nearer and nearer now 145 Bursts on the ear the intermitting roar ...
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awaye beautiful Bellerus beneath blaste bosom CANTO Cassiterides cheer clouds colour CONTEMPLATION Corineus Cornish Cornwall corse courser cried crystals Cup of Sorrow Damsels dark daughter dear deep dews DOZMARÊ POOLE dreade earth fable fair fear fleete foolscap 8vo forreste frome GILES GOONHYLDA grave grove Guarded Mount hand head heart Heav'n heave hill howling hys castle KNYGHTE labour Launceston light lodes Logris Maid manye MARY MATCHLESS midnight midst mighty moon morn mournful MUSE mysts ne'er NEDDY night numbers o'er ocean pleas'd POEMS PYRITES rise round sail scene seem'd shore sigh Sir Tristram smiles snowy white song soul SPRYTE storm Strabo stylle sweep sweet syghte sylver SYR TREGEAGLE TALE tear thee thou thro tints toil TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS Tristram Twas view'd village maids vols waves weene Whilst Whych Whyle wild winds wing wynde wyth
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Página 63 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Página 83 - There is a popular story attached to this lake, ridiculous enough as most of those tales are. It is, that a person of the name of Tregeagle, who had been a rich and powerful man but very wicked, guilty of murder and other heinous crimes, lived near this place ; and that, after his death, his spirit haunted the neighbourhood, but was at length exorcised and laid to rest in Dozmare
Página 84 - Tregeagle, who had been a rich and powerful man, but very wicked, guilty of murder and other heinous crimes, lived near this place; and that, after his death, his spirit haunted the neighbourhood, but was at length exorcised and laid to rest in Dozmare Pool. But having in his lifetime, in order to enjoy the good things of this world, disposed of his soul and body to the devil, his infernal majesty takes great pleasure in tormenting him, by imposing on him difficult tasks; such as spinning a rope...
Página 208 - ... it would have obtained for its author a very considerable reputation, though her former work had been wholly unknown.
Página 208 - Vol. I. containing, the Sabbath (5th edition) ; Sabbath Walks ; the Rural Calendar ; and Smaller Poems. Vol. II. containing, the Birds of Scotland ; and Mary Stuart, a Dramatic Poem. 13. THE BIRDS OF SCOTLAND, BIBLICAL PICTURES, and THE RURAL CALENDAR, with other POEMS. By JAMES GRAHAME, Author of " The Sabbath,
Página 208 - Walks ; the Rural Calendar ; and smaller Poems. Vol. II. containing! the Birds of Scotland ; and Mary Stuart, a Dramatic Poem. THE BIRDS of SCOTLAND, BIBLICAL PICTURES and THE RURAL CALENDAR, with other Poems. ' By JAMES GRAHAME, Anthor of " The Sahhath,
Página 85 - IN Cornwaile's famed land, bye the poole on the moore, Tregeagle the wickede did dwelle ; He once was a shepherde, contented and poore, But growing ambytious, and wishing for more, Sad fortune the shepherde befelle.
Página 79 - ... he considers the sun as a most magnificent habitable globe, surrounded by a double set of clouds. Those which are nearest its opaque body are less bright, and more closely connected together, than those of the upper stratum, which form the luminous apparent globe we behold. This luminous external matter is of a phosphoric nature, having several accidental openings in it, through which we see the sun's body, or the more opaque clouds beneath.
Página 72 - Once girt with spreading oaks ; mysterious rows Of rude enormous obelisks, that rise Orb within orb, stupendous monuments Of artless architecture, such as now Oft-times amaze the wandering traveller, By the pale moon discern'd on Sarum's plain...
Página 84 - ... &c., and at times amuses himself with hunting him over the moors with his hell-hounds, at which time Tregeagle is heard to howl and roar in a most dreadful manner, so that "roaring and howling like Tregeagle...