Zophiel: A Poem,

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Richardson & Lord, 1825 - 70 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 4 - Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twelfth day of August, AD 1825, in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Richardson & Lord, of the said District, have deposited in this office the Title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: 44 Zophiel, a Poem, by Mrs.
Σελίδα 4 - 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 arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.
Σελίδα 4 - DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT : District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the twelfth day of January, AD...
Σελίδα 37 - That foams against the sea-rock looked her neck By the dark, glossy, odorous shrubs relieved, That, close inclining o'er her, seemed to reck What 'twas they canopied ; and quickly heaved...
Σελίδα 41 - Fame ne'er had roused, nor song her records kept; The gem, the ore, the marble breathing life, The pencil's colours, all in earth had slept, Now see them mark with death his victim's strife. "Man found thee, death: but Death and dull decay, Baffling, by aid of thee, his mastery proves; By mighty works he swells his narrow day, And reigns, for ages, on the world he loves. "Yet what the price? With stings that never cease Thou goad'st him on; and when too keen the smart, His highest dole he'd barter...
Σελίδα 22 - And loveliest of her line. The tear of joy, The early love of song, the sigh that broke From her young lip, the best beloved employ; What womanhood disclosed, in infancy bespoke A child of passion : tenderest and best Of all that heart has inly loved and felt, Adorned the fair enclosure of her breast : Where passion is not found, no virtue ever dwelt.
Σελίδα 53 - s for thy hair a garland ; every flower That spreads its blossoms, water'd by the tear Of the sad slave in Babylonian bower, Might see its frail bright hues perpetuate here. "For morn's light bell, this changeful amethyst; A sapphire for the violet's...
Σελίδα 53 - The arch-chemic sun in earth's dark bosom wrought To prison thus a ray, that when dull night Frowns o'er her realms, and nature's all seems nought, She whom he grieves to leave may still behold his light.
Σελίδα 24 - The bird that sweetest sings can least endure the storm." And yet, despite of all, the starting tear, The melting tone, the blood suffusive, proved, The soul that in them spoke could spurn at fear Of death or danger ; and had those she loved Required it at their need, she could have stood, Unmoved, as some fair-sculptured statue, while The dome that guards it earth's convulsions rude Are shivering, meeting ruin with a smile.
Σελίδα 50 - ... ranging That pretty urchins launch upon the air, And laugh to see it vanish ; yet, so bright, More like — and even that were faint compare — As shaped from some new rainbow. Rosy light, Like that which pagans say the dewy car Precedes of their Aurora, clipped him round, Retiring as he moved ; and evening's star Shamed not the diamond coronal that bound His curly locks. And, still to teach his face Expression dear to her he wooed, he sought ; And in his hand he held a little vase Of virgin...

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