The Demons of the Wind: And Other Poems |
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alike arms beams beneath blast blood bloom breast breath breeze bright brow cheer clay cloud cold course curse dark dead death decay demon doom dream dwell earth fades fair fancy fell fierce fire flame fled flies future gale gaze giant glad glance gleam gloom glow gone grave hand hath head heart Heaven Hell hide hope hour king laid leaves life's light LINES live mind mirth morning mortal mouldering mourn never night o'er O’er once onward pain passed passions past PEACE phantom plain pleasures pride rage reign repose rise round ruled scene sight sleep smile soon sped spirits spring tell tempest thee thou thought toil tomb torpid turned Twas tyrant vault visions wake wave weep wild WIND withering woes worm youth
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Página 100 - And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by. day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Página 51 - Has he bid you buy and sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky? Ask him, if your knotted scourges, Fetters, blood-extorting screws, Are the means, which duty urges Agents of his will to use ? "Hark! he answers. Wild tornadoes, Strewing yonder sea with wrecks, Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which he speaks. He, foreseeing what vexations Afric's sons should undergo, Fix'd their tyrant's habitations Where his whirlwinds answer — No.
Página 76 - Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful ; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Página 77 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Página 55 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide; — The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Página 108 - A king sate on a rocky brow, Which looks o'er sea.born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations ;—all were his ! He counted them at break of day, But when the sun set, where were they...
Página 11 - THERE are spirits of the air, And genii of the evening breeze, And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fair As star-beams among twilight trees : — Such lovely ministers to meet Oft hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet. With mountain winds, and babbling springs, And moonlight seas, that are the voice Of these inexplicable things Thou didst hold commune, and rejoice...
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| Título | The Demons of the Wind: And Other Poems |
| Autor | Henry Longueville Mansel |
| Editor | Southgate, 1838 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 19 Oct. 2006 |
| Largo | 120 páginas |
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