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And rival all but Shakespeare's name below.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
That gems the starry girdle of the year.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Absence! is not the soul torn by it
From more than light, or life, or breath?
'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet,—
The pain without the peace of death!
Theodric: A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825)
What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Dr. Warton complied with this proposal, to which (as his circumstances were narrow) it must be-hoped that his poverty consented rather than his will.
There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
The meteor flag of England
Shall yet terrific burn,
Till danger's troubled night depart,
And the star of peace return.
Ye Mariners of England (1800)
Ye mariners of England,
That guard our native seas;
Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,
The battle and the breeze!
Ye Mariners of England (1800)
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.
The scented wild-weeds and enamell'd moss.
The hunter and the deer a shade.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
Few, few shall part where many meet!
The snow shall be their winding-sheet,
And every turf beneath their feet
Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Let us think of them that sleep,
Full many a fathom deep,
By thy wild and stormy steep,
Elsinore!
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.
On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
What though my wingèd hours of bliss have been
Like angels visits, few and far between.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)