The Poetical Works of James Montgomery, Volume 4Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841 |
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... being in existence ! So thought I , and the thought , like ice and fire , Went freezing , burning , withering , thrilling through me ; Annihilation then had been deliverance , While that eternity of 8 CANTO I. THE PELICAN ISLAND .
... being in existence ! So thought I , and the thought , like ice and fire , Went freezing , burning , withering , thrilling through me ; Annihilation then had been deliverance , While that eternity of 8 CANTO I. THE PELICAN ISLAND .
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... fire , As though the lightnings there had spent their shafts , And left the fragments glittering on the field . Next morn , in mockery of a storm , the breeze And waters skirmish'd ; bubble - armies fought Millions of battles on the ...
... fire , As though the lightnings there had spent their shafts , And left the fragments glittering on the field . Next morn , in mockery of a storm , the breeze And waters skirmish'd ; bubble - armies fought Millions of battles on the ...
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... fires Fiercely out - flashing from earth's central heart , Nor soon extinguish'd by the rush of waters Down the rent crater to the unknown abyss Of Nature's laboratory , where she hides Her deeds from every eye except her Maker's ...
... fires Fiercely out - flashing from earth's central heart , Nor soon extinguish'd by the rush of waters Down the rent crater to the unknown abyss Of Nature's laboratory , where she hides Her deeds from every eye except her Maker's ...
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... influence of the wind , Darkness fell on me ; giddily my brain Whirl'd like a torch of fire that seems a circle , And soon to me the universe was nothing . CANTO THIRD . NINE times the age of man that CANTO II . 27 THE PELICAN ISLAND .
... influence of the wind , Darkness fell on me ; giddily my brain Whirl'd like a torch of fire that seems a circle , And soon to me the universe was nothing . CANTO THIRD . NINE times the age of man that CANTO II . 27 THE PELICAN ISLAND .
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... fire they seem'd , Their lives all ecstasy and quick cross motion . Thus throve this embryo universe , where all That was to be was unbegun , or now Beginning ; every day , hour , instant brought Its novelty , though how or whence I ...
... fire they seem'd , Their lives all ecstasy and quick cross motion . Thus throve this embryo universe , where all That was to be was unbegun , or now Beginning ; every day , hour , instant brought Its novelty , though how or whence I ...
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abyss amidst angels art thou Babylon beauty behold beneath bird birth bless blood bosom breast breath breeze CANTO clouds coral reef cried Cyclades darkness dead death dust earth eternity fear fell fire flowers gaze gloom glory grace grave hand hath hear heart heaven hope humble immortal isle knew land light living look'd LORD LUCID INTERVAL mercy mind moon morn Morna Nature's nest night o'er ocean paradise pass'd peace Pelican Island Pelicans pray'd prayer rapture rest reveal'd Reynolds Richard Reynolds rock round sea of glass secret seem'd shone shore sight silent sing sleep small isle song soul spirit spring stars sweet tears thee thence thine Thou art thought thousand throne tide tomb tree turn'd Twas unseen vanish'd voice waked the dead waves whence wild wilderness wind wing
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Page 269 - Thou canst not toil in vain ; Cold, heat, and moist, and dry, Shall foster and mature the grain, For garners in the sky. Thence, when the glorious end, The day of God is come, The angel-reapers shall descend, And heaven cry —
Page 257 - Here, in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 236 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 158 - THE bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; And she that doth most sweetly sing Sings in the shade when all things rest : — In lark and nightingale we see What honor hath humility. 2 When Mary chose the better part, She meekly sat at Jesus...
Page 259 - So when my latest breath Shall rend the veil in twain, By death I shall escape from death, And life eternal gain.
Page 357 - Thus in God's furnace are his people tried ; Thrice happy they who to the end endure : But who the fiery trial may abide ? Who from the crucible come forth so pure ? That He whose eyes of flame look through the whole, May see his image perfect in the soul...
Page 258 - Yet clouds will intervene, And all my prospect flies; Like Noah's dove, I flit between Rough seas and stormy skies. Anon the clouds depart, The winds and waters cease; While sweetly o'er my gladdened heart Expands the bow of peace!
Page 268 - Sow in the morn thy seed ; At eve hold not thy hand ; To doubt and fear give thou no heed; Broad-cast it o'er the land.
Page 231 - A lady applied to him on behalf of an orphan. After he had given liberally, she said, * When he is old enough, I will teach him to name and thank his benefactor.' * Stop (said the good man), thou art mistaken ; we do not thank the clouds for the rain. Teach him to look higher, and thank Him who giveth both the clouds and the rain.
Page 21 - A point at first It peer'd above those waves ; a point so small, I just perceived it, fix'd where all was floating ; And when a bubble eross'd it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck ; That speck became a hand-breadth ; day and night It spread, accumulated, and ere long Presented to my view a dazzling plain, White as the moon amid the sapphire sea...