PoemsHansard, 1810 - 134 pages |
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Æeta Æeta's anguish Apollonius Apollonius Rhodius Argonauts Argus arms Athamas Augeas band bark beam bend beneath Boeotia bosom breast Calciope charms cheeks Chiefs Colchian Maid Colchis command comrades Connal counsel Cretheus crew dart daughter dire distant dome earth Eeta ev'ry eyes fame Fancy fate fear fierce fire fix'd flames flow foes Friend glows Goddess Gods Golden Fleece Grecian Greece grief hand haste heart Heav'n Hecat Hellespont Hence Heroes honour'd host Ionian Sea join'd Jove Juno King land Lest Luke Hansard magic Martial MEDEA AND JASON mind Mopsus native Nymph o'er o'er the plain Orchomenus pangs Parent's Pelias Phineus Phlegra Phrixus Phrontis plac'd Poem possest pow'rs pray'r princely race rage realms rise sacred Sarmatians shore Sire Sire's soft Sons sorrows soul Straight task tears Telamon tender thee thine thou toil tow'ring train urg'd Virgin Virgin train warlike Youth
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Page 90 - ... Nature take her due repose ; Sweet, dearest Anna, be thy sleep, While I my joyful vigils keep ! O ! be thy joy sincere as mine, For sure my pangs have equall'd thine \ Sleep on — and, waking, thou shalt see All that may sooth thy pains, in me — Friend, Husband, and (O name most dear) The Father of thy new-born care. As thou on her thine eyes shalt cast, Thank Heav'n for all thy dangers past...
Page 90 - Exhausted by her painful throes/ Let Nature take her due repose : Sweet, dearest Anna, be thy sleep, .. . While I my joyful vigils keep ! , . '. , Oh t be thy joys sincere As mine ' For sure my pangs have equall'd thine.
Page 91 - Heaven for all the danger past, Heaven for no trivial cause ordains, That joy like this succeeds thy pains, But by this sacred pledge demands A parent's duty at thy hands; While thou thy infant charge shalt rear, My love shall lighten every care.
Page 92 - In her may I those manners see, Those virtues, I adore in Thee. . TO THO ORDE, ESQ. (afterwards Lord BOLTON,) IN RETURN FOR HIS "SKETCH OF A FAMILY.
Page 43 - Meanwhile behind, to wait th' event, remain In anxious filence, all the female train. Th' appointed hour now calls the maid away. Nor ever thought (he of the fleeting day, (Such lively tranfports in her bofom glow, So fair his form, fo fweet his accents flow;) When he, more cautions,-**-" Hence let us retire, " Ere the faint fun's descending rays expire.
Page 108 - Ah si vous pouviez comprendre Ce que je ressens pour vous ; L'amour n'a rien de si tendre, Ni l'amitié de si doux.
Page 37 - Phoebus' orient ray. Now on the ground abafh'd they look, and now With fmiles that beam'd beneath their joyful brow, From each to each the mutual glances ran ; , With fault'ring voice at length the maid began. " Learn how to thee I grant the promis'd aid, " While ilrift obfervance to my counfel's paid.
Page 34 - And her fix'd feet flood rooted to the ground. Now face to face (withdrawn the virgin band,) The princely pair in awful filence ftand ; . Like two tall oaks, or firs that neighb'ring grow. When all is calm, upon the mountain's brow Peaceful they reft ; but when the winds...
Page 35 - Toothing words, ah 1 feek not to deceive; " Regard the promife to thy fitter made, " And lend, O lend thine herbs' falubrious aid! " Lo !« I implore thee, by thy parent's love, "By awful Hecat, by protecting Jove, " Who takes the gueit and fuppliant to his care ! " To thee as gueft and fuppliant I repair.
Page 42 - I'd fly, to charge thee with thy perfidy ! " Oh ! that I then before thy face could...