Poems of James MontgomeryRoutledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860 - 379 pages |
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amidst appear'd arms art thou BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA beauty behold beneath billows BIRKET FOSTER Black Death bliss blood bosom breast breath breeze CANTO clouds dark dead death dream earth Enoch eternal Euphrates father fear fell fire fix'd flame fled flood flowers foes Fulneck gazed glen gloom glory grace grave Greenland hand HARRISON WEIR hath heart heaven hope hyæna isle Javan JOHN GILBERT land light living look'd lyre moon morn Morna mountains Nature's night numbers o'er ocean open'd pale Paradise pass'd Patriarchs peace PELICAN ISLAND Pelicans prayer race rest rocks roll'd rose round scene seem'd shade shadow shore silent Sire slumber smile song soul spirit stars stood storm strange stream stretch'd sweet SWITZERLAND tears tempest thee thine thou thought tide toil trees trembling turn'd Twas vale vanish'd voice WANDERER waves weary whence wild wind wings woods youth Zillah
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Page 98 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground...
Page 71 - Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 72 - Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. " Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found...
Page 102 - The storm, that wrecks the winter sky, No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose.
Page 92 - COMMON LOT. ONCE, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man:— and WHO was HE ? — Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That Man resembled Thee. Unknown the region of his birth, The land in which he .died unknown : His name has...
Page 104 - Then in a moment to my view The stranger darted from disguise \ The tokens in his hands I knew, My Saviour stood before mine eyes ; He spake ; and my poor name he named : " Of me thou hast not been ashamed ; These deeds shall thy memorial be ; Fear not, thou didst them unto me.
Page 74 - THERE is a land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons emparadise the night ; A land of beauty, virtue...
Page 71 - A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth, Time-tutored age and love-exalted youth: The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the...
Page 47 - O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet in the vale; But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den.
Page 103 - And ate ; but gave me part again : Mine was an angel's portion then ; For, while I fed with eager haste, That crust was manna to my taste. I spied him, where a fountain burst Clear from the rock ; his strength was gone : The heedless water...