Selected Lyrics from Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and BurnsCharles Swain Thomas Houghton Mifflin, 1913 - 89 էջ |
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... lyre : But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher : When to her Organ vocal breath was given An Angel heard , and straight appear'd - Mistaking Earth for Heaven . GRAND CHORUS As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move ...
... lyre : But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher : When to her Organ vocal breath was given An Angel heard , and straight appear'd - Mistaking Earth for Heaven . GRAND CHORUS As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move ...
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... lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire . The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above ་ Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he ...
... lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire . The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above ་ Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant spires he ...
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... lyre again : Break his bands of sleep asunder 35 95 A louder yet , and yet a louder strain ! 100 And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder . Hark , hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed ...
... lyre again : Break his bands of sleep asunder 35 95 A louder yet , and yet a louder strain ! 100 And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder . Hark , hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed ...
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... lyre Could swell the soul to rage , or kindle soft desire . 130 At last divine Cecilia came , Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds , 135 And added length to solemn ...
... lyre Could swell the soul to rage , or kindle soft desire . 130 At last divine Cecilia came , Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds , 135 And added length to solemn ...
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... lyre And swept with hurried hand the strings . With woeful measures wan Despair , Low sullen sounds , his grief beguiled ; A solemn , strange , and mingled air , ' T was sad by fits , by starts ' t was wild . 5 10 197 15 20 25 25 But ...
... lyre And swept with hurried hand the strings . With woeful measures wan Despair , Low sullen sounds , his grief beguiled ; A solemn , strange , and mingled air , ' T was sad by fits , by starts ' t was wild . 5 10 197 15 20 25 25 But ...
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Aeolian lyre Alexander ALEXANDER SELKIRK Alexander's Feast antistrophe apodosis baith bard beneath blaw bonnie Lesley breathe Burns Burns's Cecilia Cecilia's Day charm Collins Cowper Cromwell dear death Dryden Edward Edward III Eleanor of Castile Elegy Epode Eton ETON COLLEGE eyes Fair Lesley fate favorite flowers goddess Gray's harmony heart Heaven heroic couplet Highland Mary Horace Walpole hour Jean John Anderson Jove Julius Cæsar Kempenfelt King lassie LINE lived Luve LUVE'S lyre LYRICS Mary Morison melancholy meter mind mood Muse ne'er numbers o'er passage passion phrase Pindar pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Progress of Poesy purple reader Richard Kempenfelt shade sigh'd simplicity sing Skylark smile Song for St sorrow soul sound springs stanza Stoke Pogis Strophe sweet taste thee theme thou thought thro tone Unwin vale verse voice winds wooing o't write
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Էջ 64 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Էջ 37 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Էջ 64 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi...
Էջ 37 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Էջ 13 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Էջ 24 - Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Էջ 48 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his...
Էջ 38 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Էջ 7 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Էջ 17 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.