Voices for Progress and Other PoemsHoulston and Stoneman, 1852 - 140 pages |
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alloy ardent art thou blest bliss BLOOM UPON THY bold bosom breast bright CANZONET CHARLES SWAIN charm cheer deed despair doth dwell ELIZA COOK evil fair faith fame feel fire fondly future days gain gentle give these hidden glow GOLDEN MONARCH grace happy hath heart Heaven hidden answers birth humble JOHN BOLTON ROGERSON JOHN CRITCHLEY KISS'D THE BLOOM LAUGHING VOICE life's light of future LIPS OF LOVE lyre merry voices mighty MILD REPROOF mind mirth MOSS LANE naught ne'er never noble o'er perchance PERSEVERANCE WILL SUCCEED philosopher of earth pleasure pride PROGRESSIOR reign rejoice REVERIE sincere sing smiling song SONNET sorrow soul souls embrace sound of merry SPIRIT OF PROGRESS strife sway sweet love sweet Spring tell there's thine thou art Thou hast thou'rt thought THY LIPS Tis Christmas tones tongue TRIUMPHS OF HOPE true truly truth unto Whilst wise
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Page 3 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 45 - Love on, love on, though we may live to see The dear face whiter than its circling shroud, Though dark and dense the gloom of Death may be, Affection's glory yet shall pierce the cloud. The truest spell that Heaven can give to lure, The sweetest prospect Mercy can bestow, Is the blest thought that bids the soul be sure 'Twill meet above the things it loved below.
Page 118 - The gibbet has not fifteen years' life in it. If in 1860, fifteen years hence, there shall be a death punishment existing, if we shall still be in this world together, reproach me with being the falsest prophet, the veriest fool, that ever presumed to talk of the advancing spirit of the times.
Page 118 - If. in 1860, fifteen years hence, there he a death punishment existing, if we shall still be in this world together, reproach me with being the falsest prophet, the veriest fool, that ever presumed to talk of the advancing spirit of the times."— LOED NUGEXT. " We cordially agree with Lord Nugent, and undertake a share of the hazards to which he here exposes himself.