The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One VolumeGrigg & Elliot, 1845 - 518 pages |
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... light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower , Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo ! where the heath , with withering brake grown o'er , Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor ; From thence a length of burning ...
... light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower , Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo ! where the heath , with withering brake grown o'er , Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor ; From thence a length of burning ...
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... light - her Bible led before , When on her double duty she proceeds , Of time as frugal - knitting as she reads : Her idle neighbours , who approach to tell Some trifling tale , her serious looks compel To hear reluctant , -while the ...
... light - her Bible led before , When on her double duty she proceeds , Of time as frugal - knitting as she reads : Her idle neighbours , who approach to tell Some trifling tale , her serious looks compel To hear reluctant , -while the ...
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... light and slender as her jasmines grow . Mark now in what confusion , stoop or stand , The crooked scrawls of many a clownish hand ; Now out , now in , they droop , they fall , they rise , Like raw recruits drawn forth for exercise ...
... light and slender as her jasmines grow . Mark now in what confusion , stoop or stand , The crooked scrawls of many a clownish hand ; Now out , now in , they droop , they fall , they rise , Like raw recruits drawn forth for exercise ...
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... light , direct ; - " On hope , in mine own sober light , I gaze , But should be blind and lose it , in your blaze . ” In times severe , when many a sturdy swain Felt it his pride , his comfort , to complain ; Isaac their wants would ...
... light , direct ; - " On hope , in mine own sober light , I gaze , But should be blind and lose it , in your blaze . ” In times severe , when many a sturdy swain Felt it his pride , his comfort , to complain ; Isaac their wants would ...
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... light sentence claims a transient smile . Hence , in these times , untouch'd the pages lie , And slumber out their immortality : They had their day , when , after all his toil , His morning study , and his midnight oil , At length an ...
... light sentence claims a transient smile . Hence , in these times , untouch'd the pages lie , And slumber out their immortality : They had their day , when , after all his toil , His morning study , and his midnight oil , At length an ...
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appear'd art thou beauty behold call'd comfort cried dare dark dear death deed delight doubt dread earth fair fame fancy fate father favourite fear fear'd feel felt fix'd fond Fulham gain'd gave gentle GEORGE CRABBE give grace grave grew grief grieved happy hear heard heart heaven holy honour hope hopes and fears Hosanna humble kind knew labour lady lady saw live look look'd Lord lover maid marriage mind Muse never night numbers nymph o'er pain pass'd passion peace Pindar pity pleased pleasure poison'd poor praise pride Reginald Heber resign'd rest scene scorn seem'd shame sigh smile sorrow sought soul speak spirit spleen stood strong sweet tell terror thee thine things thou thought truth vex'd virtue walk'd wife wish wish'd words wretch youth
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Page 11 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid ; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 11 - Lo, such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God.
Page 11 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid : Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 11 - And soon, too soon, the wintry hour Of man's maturer age, Will shake the soul with sorrow's power, And stormy passion's rage.
Page 15 - Holy, holy, holy ! all the saints adore thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea...
Page 8 - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Page 20 - BREAD of the world, in mercy broken ; Wine of the soul, in mercy shed ; By whom the words of life were spoken, And in whose death our sins are dead ; Look on the heart by sorrow broken, Look on the tears by sinners shed, And be thy feast to us the token That by thy grace our souls are fed.
Page 20 - From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Page 17 - Say, with richer crimson glows The kingly mantle than the rose : Say, have kings more wholesome fare Than we poor citizens of air ? Barns nor hoarded grain have we, Yet we carol merrily. Mortal, fly from doubt and sorrow, God provideth for the morrow.
Page 15 - Holy, holy, holy, though the darkness hide thee, Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see, Only thou art holy, there is none beside thee,. Perfect in power, in love, and purity. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, All thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea. Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity.