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awhile bard and sage beam beauty bending beneath billows blended bloom blue bosom bowers breast breath bright brow calm charm cittern clouds cold courser curls dark dart deep dewy dream dwell earth eternal ethereal fair feeling fire flame flash flow flowers foam fond frown gale gaze glance glassy ocean gloom glory glow hath heart Heaven hills hung kindled lifted light light fantastic lips living lonely look loveliness lyre mantle mellow melting moon mountain Mytilene Naiad night o'er ocean pale pure rill roar rock roll rose round rush sail seemed shade shine shone shore silent sleep smile snow soft sorrow soul sound sparkling spirit spread spring stars steals storm strain stream sweet sweetly swell tears tempest tender thee thou thought throne tints trembling vale VAUCLUSE vermil voice wake wandered wave wild wind wing
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Page 317 - The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea, And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea ; And life in rare and beautiful forms Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the waves his own...
Page 316 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter: There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea: And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea...
Page 189 - And mantled with its beauty; and the walls. That close the universe, with crystal, in, Are eloquent with voices, that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high, For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal hymn, Unfading beauty, and unyielding power.
Page 316 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet, and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
Page 137 - These are thy trophies, and thou bendst thy arch, The sign of triumph, in a seven-fold twine, Where the spent storm is hasting on its march; And there the glories of thy light combine, And form with perfect curve a lifted line, Striding the earth and air; — man looks and tells How Peace and Mercy in its beauty shine, And how the heavenly messenger impels Her glad wings on the path, that thus in ether swells. The ocean is thy vassal ; thou dost sway His waves to thy dominion, and they go, Where...
Page 357 - On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break, As down he bears before the gale.
Page 138 - In thee, first light, the bounding ocean smiles, When the quick winds uprear it in a swell, That rolls in glittering green around the isles, Where ever-springing fruits and blossoms dwell.
Page 308 - His gold-hiked sword At his bright belt is hung, His mantle of silk On his shoulder is flung, And high waves the feather, That dances and plays On his cap where the buckle And rosary blaze. The maid from her lattice Looks down on the lake, To see the foam sparkle, The bright billow break, And to hear in his boat, Where he shines like a star, Her lover so tenderly Touch his Guitar.
Page 310 - There is a sweetness in woman's decay, When the light of beauty is fading away, When the bright enchantment of youth is gone, And the tint that...
Page 135 - Rich waves of gold to wreath with fairer light the fair. The vales are thine ; and when the touch of Spring Thrills them, and gives them gladness, In thy light They glitter, as the glancing swallow's wing Dashes the water in his winding flight, And leaves behind a wave, that crinkles bright, And widens outward to the pebbled shore — The...