PoemsM. Jones, 1803 - 235 Seiten |
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... SEMICHORUS . Yes , sisters , yes , when pale distress Implores your aiding hand , Let not a partial faithfulness , Let not a mortal's vain command Urge you to break th ' unalterable laws Of heav'n - descended Charity . Ah ! follow still ...
... SEMICHORUS . Yes , sisters , yes , when pale distress Implores your aiding hand , Let not a partial faithfulness , Let not a mortal's vain command Urge you to break th ' unalterable laws Of heav'n - descended Charity . Ah ! follow still ...
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... It shall not shake the tenor of my faith ; Living or dead I still am Athelwold's . [ Exeunt Orgar and Elfrida . Horror SEMICHORUS . Horror ! The pen of Fate , dipt in its deepest gall , Perhaps on that ill - omen'd wall , Now writes 86.
... It shall not shake the tenor of my faith ; Living or dead I still am Athelwold's . [ Exeunt Orgar and Elfrida . Horror SEMICHORUS . Horror ! The pen of Fate , dipt in its deepest gall , Perhaps on that ill - omen'd wall , Now writes 86.
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... SEMICHORUS . Suspense ! thou frozen guest , be gone . The wretch , whose rugged bed Is spread on thorns , more softly rests his head , Than he that sinks amid the cygnet's down , If thou , tormenting fiend , be nigh , To prompt his ...
... SEMICHORUS . Suspense ! thou frozen guest , be gone . The wretch , whose rugged bed Is spread on thorns , more softly rests his head , Than he that sinks amid the cygnet's down , If thou , tormenting fiend , be nigh , To prompt his ...
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... friendly ear . Lead on , thou gentle maid ; thy single arm Shall prop my trembling frame ; thy single voice Speak peace to my afflictions . [ Exit with the principal Virgin . ORGAR , EDWIN , SEMICHORUS . ORGAR . On your 114.
... friendly ear . Lead on , thou gentle maid ; thy single arm Shall prop my trembling frame ; thy single voice Speak peace to my afflictions . [ Exit with the principal Virgin . ORGAR , EDWIN , SEMICHORUS . ORGAR . On your 114.
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... SEMICHORUS . Heav'n forbid ! Elfrida's brain Would madden at the sight . ORGAR . Mistake not , Virgins ; I did not mean at this distressful hour The King should see my daughter . SEMICHORUS . No , for pity , Do not profane this sabbath ...
... SEMICHORUS . Heav'n forbid ! Elfrida's brain Would madden at the sight . ORGAR . Mistake not , Virgins ; I did not mean at this distressful hour The King should see my daughter . SEMICHORUS . No , for pity , Do not profane this sabbath ...
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antient Antistrophe art thou ARVIRAGUS ATHELWOLD AULUS DIDIUS BARD beauty Behold Belinus bless blest bold breast breath Brigantes bright Britons brother brow Cæsar captive CARACTACUS CARACTACUS's charm CHORUS constant wife daughter death Dost thou doth drama dread Druid e'er Earl EDGAR EDWIN ELFRIDA ELIDURUS Ev'n ev'ry EVELINA fair falchion fate father fear flame fled give gods grace grief grove hail hallow'd Harewood Hark harp hast head hear heart heav'n holy honours hour immortal instant King kneel light Lord lyre maid Mona Muse o'er ORGAR pardon peace perchance pity praise prepar'd Prince Queen Romans Rome round sacred sage scene SEMICHORUS shade shalt sigh smile soft solemn song soul Strabo strain sword tears tell thee thine thro throne trembling Twas VELLINUS Virgins virtue warble weep wretch yonder youth
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Seite 47 - Take, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave : To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form; she bowed to taste the wave, And died.
Seite 30 - Behold each neighb'ring monarch's tomb ; The trophied arch, the breathing bust, The laurel shades their sacred dust: While thou, vile Out-cast, on this hostile plain, Moulder'st, a vulgar corse, among the vulgar slain.
Seite 42 - Or caught the orient blush of quick surprise, How sweetly mutable, how brightly wild, The liquid lustre darted from her eyes ? Each look, each motion wak'da new-born grace, That o'er her form its transient glory cast : Some lovelier wonder soon usurp'd the place, Chas'd by a charm still lovelier than the last.
Seite 138 - gainst Heav'n's will To violate their echoes : Patience here, Her meek hands folded on her modest breast, In mute submission lifts th' adoring eye, Ev'n to the storm that wrecks her.
Seite 16 - When darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sov'reign lamp of light ; Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine, save Mem'ry and the Muse ? Hence the rich spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient truth : Hence all thy classic...
Seite 47 - Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if as fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love.
Seite 191 - Julius feel, when, fir'd by it, our fathers First drove him recreant to his ships ; and ill Had far'd his second landing, but that fate Silenc'd the master Bard, who led the song.
Seite 9 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart...
Seite 12 - And every lily droop'd its silver head. Sad sympathy! yet sure his rightful meed Who charm'd all nature : well might Nature mourn Through all her choicest sweets Musaeus dead.
Seite 198 - Now, thanks to the bright star that rul'd his birth ; Yes, he will soon return to claim my blessing, And he shall have it pour'd in tears of joy On his bold breast ! methought I heard a step : Is it not his ? BARD. 'Tis some of our own train, And as I think, they lead six Romans captive. CHORUS, CARACTACUS, CAPTIVES.