The Poetical Works ...: Collated with the Best EditionsC. Whittingham, 1806 |
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Abrocomes address'd Agis Alpheus Anaxander Argestes Ariana arms Asia Asia's band Barbarian behold Beneath bless'd blood bosom brave breast brother brow buckler call'd camp Carian chief clouds command death Demaratus Demophilus Dieneces Diomedon Dithyrambus dost dreadful Eupalamus Ev'n falchion fame fate field flames friends glorious glory graceful Grecian Greece Greeks grief hand hath head heart heav'n Hellespont helm hero hills honours Horomazes host Hyperanthes illustrious immortal Jove Lacedæmon Laconia's king lance Leonidas liberty Locrian Locris lord lov'd Malian Maron Medon Megistias Melibus Melissa Menalippus Muse Mycon numbers o'er Oïleus pass'd Persian phalanx Phocian Phraortes Polydorus pondrous pow'r praise pride prince race rage ranks rock round sacred satrap seat shade shield shore sight slaves smiles solemn sons soon soul spake Spartan spear spread stream swift sword tent Teribazus terror Thebans thee Thermopylæ Thespian thou Tigranes toil trembling troops valour virtue voice warriors waves Xerxes youth
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Page 163 - Had been better far than dying Of a griev'd and broken heart. Unrepining at thy glory, Thy successful arms we hail ; But remember our sad story, And let Hosier's wrongs prevail. Sent in this foul clime to languish, Think what thousands fell in vain, Wasted with disease and anguish, Not in glorious battle slain. Hence with all my train attending From their oozy tombs below, Thro...
Page 5 - Inspir'd by me with sacred art, He sings, and rules the varied heart; If Jove's dread anger he rehearse, We hear the thunder in his verse; If he describes love turn'd to rage, The furies riot in his page.
Page 161 - Spaniards' late defeat, And his crews, with shouts victorious, Drank success to England's fleet ; On a sudden, shrilly sounding, Hideous yells and shrieks were heard: Then, each heart with fear confounding, A sad troop of ghosts...
Page 162 - On them gleam'd the moon's wan lustre, When the shade of HOSIER brave, His pale bands was seen to...
Page 70 - Of winter violate th' eternal green; Where never gloom of trouble shades the mind, Nor gust of passion heaves the quiet breast, Nor dews of grief are sprinkled. Thou art gone, Host of divine Leonidas on earth ! Art gone before him to prepare the feast, Immortalizing virtue.
Page 162 - See these mournful spectres sweeping Ghastly o'er this hated wave, Whose wan cheeks are stained with weeping; These were English captains brave. Mark those numbers pale and horrid, Those were once my sailors bold: Lo, each hangs his drooping forehead While his dismal tale is told. "I, by twenty sail attended, Did this Spanish town affright; Nothing then its wealth defended But my orders not to fight. Oh! that in this rolling ocean I had cast them with disdain, And obeyed my heart's warm motion To...
Page 23 - To live with fame The gods allow to many ; but to die With equal lustre is a blessing Heaven Selects from all the choicest boons of fate, And with a sparing hand on few bestows.
Page 157 - Kome: th' unalter'd will Of Heaven in every climate hath ordain'd, And every age, that empire shall attend The sword, and steel shall ever conquer gold. Then from thy sufferings learn; th...
Page 22 - Sublimest virtue and desire of fame, Where justice gives the laurel; in his eye The inextinguishable spark, which fires The souls of patriots; while his brow supports Undaunted valour, and contempt of death.
Page 163 - For resistance I could fear none, But with twenty ships had done What thou, brave and happy Vernon, Hast achieved with six alone. Then the Bastimentos never Had our foul dishonour seen, Nor the sea the sad receiver Of this gallant train had been.