Occasional Pieces of Poetry

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E. Bliss and E. White, 1825 - American poetry - 111 pages
 

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Page 14 - Ting'd with the rising sun ; And in the dawn they floated on, And mingled into one : I thought that morning cloud was blest, I saw two summer currents, Flow smoothly to their meeting, And join their course, with silent force, In peace each other greeting : Calm was their course through banks of green, While dimpling eddies
Page 104 - deer, And the thirsty shall drink of the holy stream. And the parched ground shall become a pool, And the thirsty land a
Page 65 - fin ; Heave thy deep breathings to the ocean's din. And bound upon its ridges in thy pride : Or dive down to its lowest depths, and in The caverns where its unknown monsters hide, Measure thy length beneath the gulf-stream's tide— Or rest thee on that navel of the sea Where, floating on the Maelstrom, abide
Page 5 - THE FALL OF NIAGARA. Labitur et labetur. THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if GOD pour'd thee from his " hollow hand," And hung his bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seem'd to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, " The sound of many waters ;
Page 108 - But the sinner shall utterly fail and die— Whelm'd in the waves of a troubled sea; And God from his throne of light on high Shall say, there is no peace for thee. THE TWO COMETS. There were two visible at the time this was written ; and for the verses, they were, on other accounts, strictly occasional.
Page 78 - And Sun and Moon most sweetly shine Upon the ocean's level brine. There's beauty in the deep. There's music in the deep :— It is not in the surPs rough roar, Nor in the
Page 49 - the lake and the hamlet, The rock, and the brook, and yon meadow so gay; From the footpath that winds by the side of the streamlet; From his hut, and the grave of his friend, far away— He is gone where the footsteps of men never
Page 86 - From Salmon River. Here, say old men, the Indian Magi made Their spells by moonlight; or beneath the shade That shrouds sequester'd rock, or dark'ning glade. Or tangled dell. Here Philip came, and Miantonimo, And asked about their fortunes long ago, As Saul to Endor, that her witch might show
Page 73 - At the piping of all hands, When the judgment signal's spread— When the islands, and the lands, And the seas give up their dead, And the south and the north shall come : When the sinner is betray'd, And the just man is afraid, Then Heaven be thy aid, Poor Tom. ON THE DEATH OF MR. WOODWARD, AT EDINBURGH. ' The spider's most attenuated thread, Is

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