The Song of the Patriot, Sonnets and Songsauthor, 1826 - 80 páginas |
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Página viii - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página xxii - And pluck'd in triumph ; while the sloe- bloom made Garlands for mating birds, and thence would rise Vouchings of purest love in anthems to the skies. And, at sweet May-tide, when the cowslip hung Its head in pensiveness, and crowflowers bright, Along the expanse of lengthening meads were flung, Mingled with ladysmocks, and daisies white, Lambsfoot, and speedwell, and the lovely sight Of hawthorn blossom, fragrant on the gale Of eve ; full oft I've wander'd with delight ; Nor, time regretting, will...
Página 13 - Than to the grandest palace can pertain : For there is nought so lovely and serene, Throughout the chambers of the mightiest king, As the pure calm that rests upon this scene, 'Mid sporting lambkins and the songs of spring : Yet oft, attracted by some dazzling show, Man flies from...
Página xxi - I've found the glossy crocus, blowing Fair in its bed of green ; and onward stray'd To sunny dells, where April's hand was throwing Violets of virgin sweetness, and survey'd The pale-eyed Primrose, glinting in the glade : Daisies...
Página ix - ... paper, with which request that? gentleman very promptly complied. Having now a greater confidence in himself, he attempted something of a larger kind, and produced in the summer of 1812, the Poem of Nottingham Park. "In 1814 the regiment was disembodied, when he again returned to the stocking-loom, and for several years entirely neglected composition. In 1817 he was placed on the staff of his old regiment, now the Royal Sherwood Foresters ; and in the following year became a married man. The...
Página 13 - sa wild Rose in yon rugged dell, Fragrant as that which blooms the garden's pride; And there's a sympathy no tongue can tell, Breathed from the linnet chanting by its side...
Página 11 - With berries red thy matron-boughs has crown'd. Thee do I envy : for, bright April showers Will bid again thy fresh green leaves expand ; And May, light floating in a cloud of flowers, Will cause thee to re-bloom with magic hand.
Página xxiii - Dearly, I love you ! native fields, and groves, And hills, and dales, and meads of fairest bloom ,' Where Spring's first flowers enjoy their nuptial loves, And June's bright children Summer winds perfume : In some still nook of yours, be this my doom, When life's frail energies shall make a stand, To find a rural solitary tomb, Where waving trees their branching arms expand, To screen my sunless house, and deck the matchless land.
Página 6 - Tis now the noon of night ; yet timid sleep To me brings not the opiate of repose ; And restless Fancy points my thoughts to those Who at this hour a gloomy reckoning keep ; Like sullen sentinels, how minutes creep ! I see the robber at the widow's door ; The murd'rer with his hands fresh...
Página ix - The cares of providing fora family now increased his necessities ; he began seriously to reflect on his future prospects in life; and perceiving he had no other chance of bettering his condition than by a publication, and not having sufficient already written to form a volume, he resolved to attempt something of greater magnitude and importance than he had hitherto done ; and in February, 1819, began the poem of