Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 2Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... Song to David . ' He became by and by sane ; but , returning to his old habits , got into debt , and died in the King's Bench prison , after a short illness , in 1770 . " The Song to David ' has been well called one of the greatest ...
... Song to David . ' He became by and by sane ; but , returning to his old habits , got into debt , and died in the King's Bench prison , after a short illness , in 1770 . " The Song to David ' has been well called one of the greatest ...
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... song was really occasioned by the bankruptcy of a number of gentlemen in Selkirkshire , although she chose to throw the new matter of lamen- tation into the old mould of song . " - Gilfillan's " Less - known Brit . Poets , " vol . iii ...
... song was really occasioned by the bankruptcy of a number of gentlemen in Selkirkshire , although she chose to throw the new matter of lamen- tation into the old mould of song . " - Gilfillan's " Less - known Brit . Poets , " vol . iii ...
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... song , wind up your strings To notes untried , and boundless things . You , whose capacious powers survey Largely beyond our eyes of clay , Yet what a narrow portion too Is seen or thought or known by you ! How flat your highest praises ...
... song , wind up your strings To notes untried , and boundless things . You , whose capacious powers survey Largely beyond our eyes of clay , Yet what a narrow portion too Is seen or thought or known by you ! How flat your highest praises ...
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... song ! To him , ye vocal gales , Breathe soft , whose Spirit in your freshness breathes : Oh , talk of him in solitary glooms ; Where , o'er the rock , the scarcely waving pine Fills the brown shade with a religious awe . And ye , whose ...
... song ! To him , ye vocal gales , Breathe soft , whose Spirit in your freshness breathes : Oh , talk of him in solitary glooms ; Where , o'er the rock , the scarcely waving pine Fills the brown shade with a religious awe . And ye , whose ...
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... song ; where first the Sun Gilds Indian mountains , or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles ; ' tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present , ever felt , In the void waste , as in the city full ; And where he vital breathes ...
... song ; where first the Sun Gilds Indian mountains , or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles ; ' tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present , ever felt , In the void waste , as in the city full ; And where he vital breathes ...
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