The Desolation of Eyam: the Emigrant: A Tale of the American Woods and Others PoemsWightman and Cramp, 1827 - 322 pages |
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Amid ANDREW FULLER bard beam beauty blessed blest bosom breath bright Brown heaths charm cloud Codrus dark dear death deeds delight desert desolate dread dream Eakring earth EYAM fame fear fierce fire flame flowers Forest Minstrel furled sail gale gallant gaze glad gleam glen gloom glory glow gone grave green grey grief Harp hath heart heaven hills hope hour immortal immortal verse land leafy life's light living locust-tree lone LORD BYRON love's lyre Mary Howitt memory mighty mother mountain neath night NOTTINGHAMSHIRE o'er passed pride pure rill rose round rushed scene sea-king sere shade shine shore silent Sir George Saville skies solitude song sorrow soul spirit splendour stern stood stream sweet tears tempest thee thine Thou hast thought thrill throng tomb tone tree Twas vision voice wake wandering wave wild wind woods young youth
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Page 220 - I will not compare to a chain, for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts; we are all one flesh and blood.
Page 293 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Page 220 - He then added that he would not do as the Marylanders did, that is, call them children or brothers only; for often parents were apt to whip their children too severely, and brothers sometimes would differ; neither would he compare the friendship between him and them to a chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.
Page 220 - Sachem who wore the horn in the chaplet, and desired him and the other Sachems to preserve it carefully for three generations, that their children might know what had passed between them, just as if he himself had remained with them to repeat it.
Page 41 - Sir, I have made bold in my will with your name for executor, and I hope you will not take it ill. I have joined two others with you, who will take from you the trouble. Your favourable aspect will, I know, be a great comfort to my distressed orphans. I am not desirous that they should be great, but good ; and my next request is that they be brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
Page 10 - ... bleak; Below, wild dells romantic pathways ope; Around, above it, spreads a shadowy cope Of forest trees : flower, foliage, and clear rill Wave from the cliffs, or down ravines elope; It seems a place charmed from the power of ill By sainted words of old : — so lovely, lone, and still. And many are the pilgrim feet which tread Its rocky steeps: which thither yearly go; Yet, less by love of Nature's wonders led, Than by the memory of a mighty woe, Which smote, like blasting thunder, long ago,...
Page 57 - twas eventide; — The sun shone on the rock amid the sea; The winds were hushed ; the quiet billows sighed With a low swell ; — the birds winged silently Their evening flight around the scathed tree : The fisher safely put into the bay, And...
Page 40 - Indeed, had she loved herself as well as me, she had fled from the pit of destruction with the sweet babes, and might have prolonged her days; but she was resolved to die a martyr to my interest. My drooping spirits are much refreshed with her joys, which I think are unutterable.
Page 55 - The singing girl with flower-wreathed instrument ; And slaves whose beauty asked a monarch's price. Forth from all lands all nations to her went, And kings to her on embassy were sent. I saw, with gilded prow and silken sail, Her ships that of the sea had government : Oh gallant ships ! 'gainst you what might prevail ! She stood upon her rock, and in her pride Of strength and beauty, waste and woe defied.
Page 220 - Such, indeed, was the spirit in which the negotiation was entered into, and the corresponding settlement conducted, that, for the space of more than seventy years, and so long indeed as the Quakers retained the chief power in the government, the peace and amity which had been thus solemnly promised and concluded never was violated ; and a large...