Beachy Head: With Other Poems, Volume 1Author, 1807 - 219 pages |
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... morning hails , I would recline ; while Fancy should go forth , And represent the strange and awful hour Of vast concussion ; when the Omnipotent Stretch'd forth his arm , and rent the solid hills , Bidding the impetuous main flood rush ...
... morning hails , I would recline ; while Fancy should go forth , And represent the strange and awful hour Of vast concussion ; when the Omnipotent Stretch'd forth his arm , and rent the solid hills , Bidding the impetuous main flood rush ...
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... morning beam , That rising with advancing day , Scatters the silver drops away . An elm , uprooted by the storm , The trunk with mosses gray and green , Shall make for us a rustic form , Where lighter grows the forest scene ; And far ...
... morning beam , That rising with advancing day , Scatters the silver drops away . An elm , uprooted by the storm , The trunk with mosses gray and green , Shall make for us a rustic form , Where lighter grows the forest scene ; And far ...
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... morning bore Some blue swol'n cor'se to land ; the pale recluse Dug in the chalk a sepulchre - above Where the dank sea - wrack mark'd the utmost tide , And with his prayers perform'd the obsequics For the poor helpless stranger . One ...
... morning bore Some blue swol'n cor'se to land ; the pale recluse Dug in the chalk a sepulchre - above Where the dank sea - wrack mark'd the utmost tide , And with his prayers perform'd the obsequics For the poor helpless stranger . One ...
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... morning springs ; And far above the floating vapour , sings At such an height , That even the shepherd - lad upon the hill , Hearing his matin note so shrill , With shaded eyes against the lustre bright , Scarce sees him twinkling in a ...
... morning springs ; And far above the floating vapour , sings At such an height , That even the shepherd - lad upon the hill , Hearing his matin note so shrill , With shaded eyes against the lustre bright , Scarce sees him twinkling in a ...
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... morning star , But , never from the nestlings far , Explor'd each furrow , every sod for food ; While his more anxious partner tried From hostile eyes , the helpless group to hide ; Attempting now , with labouring bill , to guide The ...
... morning star , But , never from the nestlings far , Explor'd each furrow , every sod for food ; While his more anxious partner tried From hostile eyes , the helpless group to hide ; Attempting now , with labouring bill , to guide The ...
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anémones appears BEACHY HEAD beauty Beneath bird bird's foot trefoil bloom bower breast bright brow buds Byssus called chalk Choughs Cistus cliffs clouds coast Conium crouding curlew dark dear deep distant elegant eyes fabled fair Fancy Fancy's fern floating flock flood Flora flowers Folly Form'd gale Galium Gannets glowing gray green happy heard heath hides hills hollow hour hues insects Ivy green labour Lark leaves Leontodon light Line 11 Line 9 morning mountain murmuring native nest never night Normans o'er Ophrys pale Pinna plants purple rays rear'd rears rocks Rose round rude sail Saint Monica Scandix scarce Scutellaria shade shepherds shew Sicily sigh silver sings soft soothing spatha spring stream summer Sussex tears thorn thou thro tide toil tormentil Torrington trace tribe Trinacria tufted turf vale Viburnum wandering waves wild willowy wind wings Woodlarks woods wreath
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Page 79 - SWALLOW The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and, beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath, of May.
Page 21 - To ease his panting team, stopp'd with a stone The grating wheel. Advancing higher still The prospect widens, and the village church But little, o'er the lowly roofs around Rears its gray belfry, and its simple vane...
Page 24 - I loved to trace the brooks whose humid banks Nourish the harebell, and the freckled pagil; And stroll among o'ershadowing woods of beech, Lending in Summer, from the heats of noon A whispering shade; while haply there reclines Some pensive lover of uncultured flowers...
Page 79 - The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. The welcome guest of settled Spring...
Page 181 - But oh! what joy it was to hear him sing In summer, when the day began to spring, Stretching his neck, and warbling in his throat; Solus cum sola then was all his note. For in the days of yore, the birds of parts Were bred to speak, and sing, and learn the liberal arts.
Page 115 - Gatherest thy fringed mantle round Thy bosom, at the closing hour, When nightdrops bathe the turfy ground, Unlike Silene, who declines The gansh noontide's blazing light ; But when the evening crescent shines. Gives all her sweetness to the night. Thus in each flower and simple bell. That in our path betrodden lie, Are sweet remembrancers who tell How fast their winged moments fly.
Page 22 - The upland shepherd rears his modest home, There wanders by, a little nameless stream That from the hill wells forth, bright now and clear, Or after rain with chalky mixture gray, But still refreshing in its shallow course, The cottage garden; most for use design'd, Yet not of beauty destitute.
Page 111 - Are faithful monitors, who tell How pass the hours and seasons by. The greenrobed children of the Spring Will mark the periods as they pass, Mingle with leaves Time's feathered wing, And bind with flowers his silent glass.
Page 82 - Thus lost to life, what favouring dream Bids you to happier hours awake ; And tells, that dancing in the beam, The light gnat hovers o'er the stream, The May-fly on the lake ? Or if, by instinct taught to know Approaching dearth of insect food ; To isles and willowy aits you go, And...
Page 23 - And pansies rayed, and freaked and mottled pinks Grow among balm, and rosemary and rue; There honeysuckles flaunt, and roses blow Almost uncultured: some with dark green leaves Contrast their flowers of pure unsullied white; Others like velvet robes...