Original Poetic Effusions: Moral, Religious, and Sentimental

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Edgar W. Davies, 1822 - 206 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 130 - Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Σελίδα 168 - Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Σελίδα 195 - Pharisees confessed as much of the holy prophets. Let him and such as he, when they are in their best actions, even at their prayers, look to hear that which the Pharisees heard from John the Baptist, when they least expected, when they rather looked for praise from him ; ' Generation of vipers, who hath warned ye to flee from the wrath to come...
Σελίδα 75 - tis strange I vow ; — It seems two wheels with wooden spring, Carnation ! see it go ! Cries Dick, that's called Velocipede-rA creature without tail or head, That wants nor whip nor prick, — There's nought to do but on and kick, Away 'tis gone full speed ! — And will or stage or coach outrun, In manner wonderful, indeed ! As very often it has done. Well ! well ! but what is that astride,— There — kicking so, and tries to ride ? Wounds ! how the thing does pant for breath — Tis dying, sure,...
Σελίδα 153 - ... O self-polluted loathsome wretch, The scourge of human kind, Go waste thy substance and thy state, And brutalize thy mind. 2 Go haunt the taverns night and day, The time thus spent in vain, Will bring disease and wo and death, And barter peace for pain. 3 Go like a demon to thy house, Destroy each comfort there ; And from thy sorrowing family Wring out the bitter tear.
Σελίδα 42 - As well might ocean billows heave, When not a wind did rise, As fancy thus my heart deceive, And fix my wandering eyes. No ; 'tis the beauty of the soul, That could my bosom fire ; THIS would my tenderest thot's controul, And love and truth inspire ! I WILL LOVE THEE.
Σελίδα 186 - See them meeting, Dreadful greeting, And for carnage fierce prepare, — [The Eagle and the Lion there] Now, the cannon's awful roar Runs along th...

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