Leisure Hours: Or, Poems, Moral, Religious, & Descriptiveauthor, and sold, 1812 - 160 páginas |
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... dark mangroves kiss the flowing tide . But not with these do I attempt a flight , Too high the lofty , and too low the light ; And yet I may one short epistle send , I Nor fear a critic whom I love , a friend . Here Spring in robes of ...
... dark mangroves kiss the flowing tide . But not with these do I attempt a flight , Too high the lofty , and too low the light ; And yet I may one short epistle send , I Nor fear a critic whom I love , a friend . Here Spring in robes of ...
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... Dark'ning the white sand with a dreadful shade , While from their nostrils roars a bright cascade ! In this bright isle , no wint'ry snows are known ! Those white - wing'd scourges of the frigid zone ! Nor winter house , the native here ...
... Dark'ning the white sand with a dreadful shade , While from their nostrils roars a bright cascade ! In this bright isle , no wint'ry snows are known ! Those white - wing'd scourges of the frigid zone ! Nor winter house , the native here ...
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... dark tall cedar's spiry tops are seen , In vivid brightness gold and smiling green : But when from heaven's higher arch she pours A flood of glory on the sparkling shores . The placid - ocean dazzled with her rays , Seems liquid gold ...
... dark tall cedar's spiry tops are seen , In vivid brightness gold and smiling green : But when from heaven's higher arch she pours A flood of glory on the sparkling shores . The placid - ocean dazzled with her rays , Seems liquid gold ...
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... of adversity lowers , I blossom the best in the shade ; And bear a profusion of flowers , When darkness rolls over my head . For if riches allure with her wiles ; If honour AND DESCRIPTIVE . 47 The Arbor Tristes, or Sad Tree of Molucca.
... of adversity lowers , I blossom the best in the shade ; And bear a profusion of flowers , When darkness rolls over my head . For if riches allure with her wiles ; If honour AND DESCRIPTIVE . 47 The Arbor Tristes, or Sad Tree of Molucca.
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... dark prospect illumes , And penitence brightens the shade . Tears fall like the eventide dew , Refreshing and soft from the skies , And the blossoms of gladness anew , In richest profusion arise . Then up to my Saviour I look , I fly.
... dark prospect illumes , And penitence brightens the shade . Tears fall like the eventide dew , Refreshing and soft from the skies , And the blossoms of gladness anew , In richest profusion arise . Then up to my Saviour I look , I fly.
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angels Band of brothers Bay of Fundy beatific beautiful beneath Bermuda bleeding blessed blest bliss bloom bosom breast bright cedar CEDAR GROVE cedar hills clime cold cool dark dazzling death deep delight divine E'er Epictetus faithful fate fear feel final hour flaming foam glide glory gold gospel grace groves happy hast heart heaven heaven's gate hell Hence hope immortal Island Isle Jesus labours Lord Lower Canada mercy Methodist mind mission missionary mortal Mosqueto negro night Nova Scotia o'er ocean Paul & Thomas piety pious pity poor prayer preach pure race rapture reign rich rise roar rocks roll saints salvation Saviour serene shade shine shore Sierra Leone skies skin slave sleep smile soft sorrow soul spread spring sweet sweet oblivion sweetly tears tempest thee thou thought thro throne toil truth VOLTAIRE wave weep wretch zeal
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Página 127 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Página 33 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.
Página 74 - Death is the crown of life : Were death denied, poor man would live in vain : Were death denied, to live would not be life: Were death denied, e'en fools would wish to die. Death wounds to cure; we fall, we rise, we reign! Spring from our fetters, fasten in the skies, Where blooming Eden withers in our sight. Death gives us more than was in Eden lost! This king of terrors is the prince of peace.
Página 51 - ... and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Página 117 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Página 132 - O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enroll'd me Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task ? Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in...
Página 45 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Página 81 - Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever ; Me to torture, me to task? Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant for which we toil?
Página 94 - Reel over his full bowl, and when 'tis drain'd Fill up another to the brim, and laugh At the poor bugbear Death...
Página 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...