What is the bigot's torch, the tyrant's chain! I smile on death, if Heavenward HOPE remain! But, if the warring winds of Nature's strife Be all the faithless charter of my life, If Chance awaked, inexorable power... The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems - Page 72by Thomas Campbell - 1803 - 131 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Campbell - 1806 - 220 pages
...Ah me ! the laurel'd wreath that Murder rears, Blood-nurs'd, and water'd by the widow's tears, 33O Seems not so foul, so tainted, and so dread, As waves...remain ! But, if the warring winds of Nature's strife 335 Be all the faithless charter of my life, If Chance awak'd, inexorable pow'r, This frail and fev'rish... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
...blasted leaf, and death-distilling fruit! Ah me I the laurel'd wreath that murder rears, Blood-nurs'd, and water'd by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul,...chain ? I smile on death, if heav'n-ward Hope remain I But, if the warring winds of Nature's strife If Chance awak'd, inexorable power, This frail and feverish... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1812 - 160 pages
...blasted leaf, and death-distilling fruit! Ah me! the laurel'd wreath that murder rears, Blood-nurs'd, and water'd by the widow's tears,' Seems not so foul,...remain \ But, if the warring winds of Nature's strife If Chance awak'd, inexorable power, This frail and feverish being of an hour ; Doom'd o'er the world's... | |
| Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1814 - 584 pages
...indebted for all these congruities ? " To me, the laurell'd wreath that murder rears, Blood-nurs'd, and water'd by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul, so tainted, and s6 dread, ~ As waves the nightshade round the sceptic head." CAMPBELL. * St. Pierre'i Studio of Mature,... | |
| Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1816 - 584 pages
...are indebted for all these oongruities? " To me, the laurel'd wreath that murder rears, Blood-nurs'd, and water'd by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul,...dread, As waves the nightshade round the sceptic head." CAMPBELL. * St. Pierre's Studies of Nature, vol. i. 13. XLVII. Q/' some of the Effects of Respiration.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1817 - 166 pages
...blasted leaf, and death.distilling fruit ! Ah me ! the laurell'd wreath that Murder rears, Blood-nursed, and water'd by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul,...bigot's torch, the tyrant's chain ? I smile on death, if Heaven- ward Hope remain ! But, if the warring winds of Nature's strife Be all the faithless charter... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 176 pages
...the laurell'd wreath that Murder rears, Blood-nursed, and water'd by the widow's tears, Seems not BO foul, so tainted, and so dread, As waves the night-shade...bigot's torch, the tyrant's chain ? I smile on death, if Heaven-ward Hope remain ! But, if the warring winds of Nature's strife Be all the faithless charter... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 254 pages
...Ah me ! the laurel'd wreath that murder rears, JBlood-nurs'd, and water'd hy the widow's teal's, 330 Seems not so foul, so tainted, and so dread, As waves...the night-shade round the sceptic head. What is the higot's torch, the tyrant's chain ! I smile on death, if Heav'n-ward Hope remain ! Bat, if the warring... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...and death-distilling fruit ! Ah me ! the laureled wreath that murder rears, Blood-nursed, and watered by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul, so tainted, and so dread, As waves the night-shade round the skeptick head. What is the bigot's torch, the tyrant's chain ? I smile on death, if heaven-ward hope... | |
| Solomon Piggott - Suicide - 1824 - 422 pages
...blasted leaf, and death-distilling fruit ! Ah me ! the laurell'd wreath that Murder rears, Blood-nursed, and water'd by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul,...head. What is the bigot's torch, the tyrant's chain ? j. I smile on death, if Heaven-ward hope remain. But, if the warring winds of Nature's strife Be... | |
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