The Star-seer: A Poem, in Five CantosLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1837 - 173 pàgines |
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aërial Astrologer beadsman beautiful beneath bliss bosom bower breast breath bride bright brow CALDENE CANTO charm Cistercian cloud comet cried damsels dark death destiny divine dost dread dream E'en e'er earth EDITHA eleventh house fear fell fiery fire flame flowers gaze gentle glare glittering glory grey Halifax hallowed hand HAROLD hath head heard heart heaven Hebden Bridge hills honour horoscope hour influence Kirklees Kirklees Priory Ladye last eve Libra light lips LLADS-LOWE lone look Love's loveliness lover MAGIAN midnight Mirfield moon mortal mysterious mystic neath night o'er OSWALD TOWER planets Priory radiant rill rock rocky rose round sate scene SEER Seneschal shining shone smile soul sparkling sped spell spirit STAR-SEER stars steed stood strange sublime sweet thee thine thou thunder trees trembling veil Wanderer ween Wend wild wind wings Witch Doctor words young youth
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Pàgina 164 - the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by divine thrusting on.
Pàgina 159 - Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in woman overtrusting, Lets her will rule : restraint she will not brook; And, left to herself, if evil thence ensue, She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
Pàgina 103 - Look on me ! there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death.
Pàgina 165 - My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.
Pàgina 73 - Oh ! sooner shall the rose of May Mistake her own sweet nightingale. And to some meaner minstrel's lay Open her bosom's glowing veil. Than Love shall ever doubt a tone, A breath of the beloved one. i.
Pàgina v - It is a gentle and affectionate thought. That in immeasurable heights above us, At our first birth this wreath of love was woven With sparkling stars for flowers.
Pàgina 163 - This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often
Pàgina 132 - clergymen were ferried over to Lambeth ; it was said, to petition that a short prayer might be penned and ordered, there being none in the church service on that occasion. " Three maids of honour burnt their collections of
Pàgina 132 - The next morning, however, the Comet appeared according to the prediction, and before noon the belief was universal that the Day of Judgment was at hand. About this time,
Pàgina 159 - To offer war, where they should sue for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, Where they are bound to serve, love, and obey,