PoemsN. Biggs, 1803 - 202 pages |
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Page vii
... feeling , is impelled to seek for sympathy ; but a Poet's feelings are all strong . Quicquid amet valde amat . - Akenside therefore speaks with philosophical accuracy when he classes Love and Poetry , as producing the same effects ...
... feeling , is impelled to seek for sympathy ; but a Poet's feelings are all strong . Quicquid amet valde amat . - Akenside therefore speaks with philosophical accuracy when he classes Love and Poetry , as producing the same effects ...
Page viii
... feelings , were written at different times and prompted by very different feelings ; and therefore that the sup- posed inferiority of one Poem to another may sometimes be owing to the temper of mind , in which he happens to peruse it ...
... feelings , were written at different times and prompted by very different feelings ; and therefore that the sup- posed inferiority of one Poem to another may sometimes be owing to the temper of mind , in which he happens to peruse it ...
Page x
... feelings , it is more consoling to our pride to consider him as lost beneath , than as soaring above , us . If any man expect from my poems the same easiness of style which he admires in a drinking - song , for him I have not written ...
... feelings , it is more consoling to our pride to consider him as lost beneath , than as soaring above , us . If any man expect from my poems the same easiness of style which he admires in a drinking - song , for him I have not written ...
Page 81
... feeling is developed . It is limited to a parti- cular number of lines , in order that the reader's mind having expected the close at the place in which he finds it , may rest satisfied ; and that so the poem may acquire , as it were ...
... feeling is developed . It is limited to a parti- cular number of lines , in order that the reader's mind having expected the close at the place in which he finds it , may rest satisfied ; and that so the poem may acquire , as it were ...
Page 82
... feeling , by whatever cause it may have been excited ; but those Sonnets appear to me the most exquisite , in which moral Sentiments , Affec- tions , or Feelings , are deduced from , and associated with , the Scenery of Nature . Such ...
... feeling , by whatever cause it may have been excited ; but those Sonnets appear to me the most exquisite , in which moral Sentiments , Affec- tions , or Feelings , are deduced from , and associated with , the Scenery of Nature . Such ...
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amid anguish ANTISTROPHE Bard beneath blast blest bosom breast bright brood CHATTERTON cheek clouds dance dark Darts dear didst divine dream dwell earth EPODE Ev'n evil faery faint Fancy Fancy's fear feelings fix'd flower fond foolscap 8vo French Revolution Friend gale gaze gleam groaning haply hath heart Heaven holy Hope hour hues inly JOSEPH COTTLE kiss Lamb of God light lonely lov'd Love Maid meek mild mind Monody mourning muse night Note to Line nurs'd o'er thy octavo pale Peace pensive Petrarch PIXIES Poem poison'd rise RIVER OTTER ROBERT BLOOMFIELD ROBERT SOUTHEY round S. T. COLERIDGE SARA sigh sleep smile soft song SONNET soothes sorrows soul Spirit stream sublime Superstition sweet swell tear thee thine thou thought thro Throne toil trembling vale vision voice warbled ween weep wild wing wreath
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Page 135 - Now winding bright and full, with naked banks; And seats, and lawns, the Abbey, and the wood, And cots, and hamlets, and faint city-spire...
Page 131 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All...
Page 130 - And many idle flitting phantasies, Traverse my indolent and passive brain, As wild and various as the random gales That swell and...
Page 101 - SCHILLER ! that hour I would have wished to die, If through the shuddering midnight I had sent From the dark dungeon of the tower time-rent That fearful voice, a famished Father's cry — Lest in some after moment aught more mean Might stamp me mortal ! A triumphant shout Black Horror...
Page 130 - O! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance every where Methinks, it should have been impossible Not to love all things in a world so filled; Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air Is Music slumbering on her instrument.
Page 130 - Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover, It pours such sweet upbraiding, as must needs Tempt to repeat the wrong! And now, its strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise, Such a soft floating witchery of sound...
Page 166 - I hear the famished brood of prey Flap their lank pennons on the groaning wind ! Away, my soul, away ! I unpartaking of the evil thing, With daily prayer and daily toil Soliciting for food my scanty soil, Have wailed my country with a loud Lament.
Page 27 - MAID of my love, sweet Genevieve! In beauty's light you glide along : Your eye is like the star of eve, And sweet your voice as seraph's song.
Page xi - own exceeding great reward :' it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Page 57 - EPITAPH ON AN INFANT. ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed And bade it blossom there.