Favorite Odes and Poems: By Collins, Dryden and MarvellJ.R. Osgood and Company, 1877 |
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... And as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art , Each ( for Madness ruled the hour ) Would prove his own expressive power . First Fear his hand , its skill to try ,. HEN Music , heavenly maid , was. THE PASSIONS.
... And as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art , Each ( for Madness ruled the hour ) Would prove his own expressive power . First Fear his hand , its skill to try ,. HEN Music , heavenly maid , was. THE PASSIONS.
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... heavenly joys inspire . The song began from Jove , Who left his blissful seats above ( Such is the power of mighty love ) . A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode , When he to fair Olympia pressed , And ...
... heavenly joys inspire . The song began from Jove , Who left his blissful seats above ( Such is the power of mighty love ) . A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he rode , When he to fair Olympia pressed , And ...
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... heavenly har- mony , This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay , And could not heave her head , The tuneful voice was heard from high , Arise , ye more than dead ! Then cold , and hot , and moist ...
... heavenly har- mony , This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay , And could not heave her head , The tuneful voice was heard from high , Arise , ye more than dead ! Then cold , and hot , and moist ...
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... heavenly ways To mend the choirs above . Orpheus could lead the savage race , And trees uprooted left their place , Sequacious of the lyre : But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher ; When to her organ vocal breath was given , An ...
... heavenly ways To mend the choirs above . Orpheus could lead the savage race , And trees uprooted left their place , Sequacious of the lyre : But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher ; When to her organ vocal breath was given , An ...
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... heavenly love inspire ; Come , and thy sacred unction bring To sanctify us , while we sing . Plenteous of grace , descend from high , Rich in thy seven - fold energy ! Thou strength of his Almighty hand , Whose power does heaven and ...
... heavenly love inspire ; Come , and thy sacred unction bring To sanctify us , while we sing . Plenteous of grace , descend from high , Rich in thy seven - fold energy ! Thou strength of his Almighty hand , Whose power does heaven and ...
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Страница 89 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Страница 50 - Revenge ! revenge ! Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair ! And the sparkles that flash from their eyes...
Страница 46 - Changed his hand and check'd his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse: He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen. Fallen from his high estate. And...
Страница 93 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor called the Gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right ; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Страница 89 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Страница 52 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Страница 66 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Страница 13 - He threw his blood-stained sword, in thunder, down ; And with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe...
Страница 11 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power.
Страница 45 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ! Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...