The Poetry of The World..John Bell, 1788 |
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ANCIENT MUSIC Anthem ARLEY artless Bard Beauty's BENEDICT bliss bloom bosom bow'r breast brow calm CANZONET charms cheek cheer Compassion's Content dear delight despair DIRECTOR distress doom'd e'er ECLOGUE ELIZA's endearing ev'ry fair faithful fame fear feel final doom flow flow'r fond forgot form'd Friendship gale gentle give gloom glow grief guile Handel haste hath hear heart honour hour humble LADY LAMENTATION life's lov'd lyre Maid MELISSA mind mirth mourn Muse mutual love never nymphs o'er pangs Passion peace pleas'd pow'r pray'r PRINCE OF WALES private peace rapture sacred band scenes scorn serene share the sweets sigh Sir John SIR JOHN MILLER smile soft SOLOMON'S SONG song sooth sorrow speak strain strive Swain sweets of mutual tear tender thee thou Thou'lt thro toil Twill undisturb'd virgin virtue wear weep wilt WORLD youth ΤΟ
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Página 116 - LORD, I am not high-minded; I have no proud looks. 2 I do not exercise myself in great matters which are too high for me. 3 But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child that is weaned from his mother : yea, my soul is even as a weaned child.
Página 66 - Your Molly has never been false, she declares, Since last time we parted at Wapping Old Stairs, When I swore that I still would continue the same, And gave you the 'bacco box marked with my name.
Página 141 - They come with festive heart and glee, Their hands unshackled minds as free ; They come at Mercy's great command, To repossess their native land. The gales that o'er the Ocean stray, And chace the waves in gentle play, Methinks they whisper as they fly, JUELLEN soon will meet thine eye! 'Tis this that sooths her...
Página 125 - Warm breath, tranced whisper, tender semi-tone, Bright eyes, accomplish'd shape, and lang'rous waist ! * These lines, though better expressed, are not essentially different from what the Delia Cruscans wrote, — this, for example: Dear balmy lips of her who holds my heart . . . Dear lips! — permit my trembling lips to press Your ripen'd softness, in a tender kiss: And, while my throbbing heart avows the bliss, Will you — (dear lips!) the eager stranger's bless? Her dark-brown tresses negligently...
Página 123 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Página 140 - AH, tell me, little mournful MOOR, Why still you linger on the shore ? Haste to your play-mates, haste away, Nor loiter here with fond delay : When Morn unveil'd her radiant eye, You hail'd me as I wander'd by ; Returning at th' approach of Eve, Your meek salute I still receive.
Página 119 - Unspotted names, and memorable long; If there be force in virtue, or in song. Of gentle blood (part shed in Honour's cause, While yet in Britain Honour had applause) Each .parent sprung — A.
Página 141 - Tis this that sooths her little Son, Blends all his wishes into one : Ah ! were I clasp'd in her embrace, I wou'd forgive her past disgrace : Forgive the memorable hour She fell a prey to tyrant pow'r...
Página 66 - bacco box mark'd with your name; When I pass'da whole fortnight between decks with you, Did I e'er give a kiss, Tom, to one of the crew? To be useful and kind, with my Thomas I stay'd, For his trousers I wash'd, and his grog, too, I made. Though you...
Página 142 - And darts of day the darkness streak, Perchance along the glitt'ring main, (Oh, may this hope not throb in vain) To meet these long-desiring eyes, JUELLEN and the Sun may rise.