PoemsOliver & Boyd, 1859 - 182 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
afar Alang azure skies beams beauty beneath blast blaze bliss bloom Borean bosom bowers breast breath bright brow Caledon charms cheer dark death decay doom dreams e'en e'er earth Edina eternal fair fairest fame fancy fancy's fate fear fled flowers foes frae freedom's gale gaze gild gladness glance gleam gloom glory glow grave grim grove hail hath heart heaven hope hope's hour INVERESK life's light love's mingling muse MUSSELBURGH Nature's ne'er neath night o'er thy pale path peace poison'd pride raptures reign rill roam scenes Scotia's Scotland seraph shade shadow falls shadows shame shine shore skies smile SONG sorrow sorrow's soul star starless night strain stream strife sublime summer sweet tears tempests thee thine thou art time's toil trod Twas tyrant vale VIII vision wail wail of war waste wave ween weep wild youth's
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Página 98 - It was not in the battle — No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
Página 89 - WHEN some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below ; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been...
Página 101 - CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies: Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 15 - Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood, and drink the tears of thy distress...
Página 146 - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury...
Página 53 - OF BURNS, being a Discourse delivered at Banchory on the BURNS Centenary, by Francis Adams, LL.D., MD [16-mo.] Aberdeen: JOHN SMITH. 1859. POEMS, by Charles M. Bain. [12-mo.] Edinburgh: OLIVER & BOYD. 1859. A tribute to the memory of BURNS, and in honour of his first Centenary— •' Not with the inglorious dead he rests— The fairest gem in fame's regard ; Embalm'd with love in freemen's breasts— A world's renown his meet reward. And while o'er Doon's enchanted vale The lark shall wake the dewy...