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'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
A stoic of the woods—a man without a tear.
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Oh, how hard it is to find
The one just suited to our mind!
Theodric: A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825)
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore
Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Better be courted and jilted
Than never be courted at all.
The Jilted Nymph (1843)
Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o'er the mountain waves,
Her home is on the deep.
Ye Mariners of England (1800)
Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked—as Kosciusko fell!
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiring Chancellor death was now armed with a new terror.
Oh leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!
The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume
The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb.
What millions died that Caesar might be great!
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook.
The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below!
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)