The Carthusian: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse, Volume 2

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For S. Walker, 1839
 

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Página 221 - Enlarged winds that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. I
Página 369 - While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes ; Where'er you find the ' cooling western breeze,' In the next line ' it whispers through the trees :' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader 's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep.'
Página 369 - That strain again !—it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour;"— a
Página 369 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down and smokes along the ground.
Página 215 - swim in that live bath, Each fish, which every channel hath. Will amorously to thee swim, Gladder to catch thee, than thou him. For thee, thou need'st no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own bait : That fish, that is not catch'd thereby, Alas ! is wiser far than I
Página 376 - memini me turribus arcis, Qua niger humectât flaventia culta Galsesus, Corycium vidisse senem, cui pauca relicti Jugera ruris erant : nee fertilis ilia juvencis Nee pecori opportuna seges, nee commoda Baccho. Hie rarum tarnen in dumis olus albaque circum Lilia verbenasque premens, vescumque papaver, Regum aequabat opes animis : seraque revertens Nocte domum
Página 385 - of the garden, planted with such herbs as yield their perfume when trodden upon and crushed,—burnet, wild thyme, and water-mints, according to Bacon's advice, who bids us " set whole alleys of them to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
Página 212 - rage ; For whether he will let me pass Or no, I 'm still as happy as I was. Though seas and land betwixt us both, Our faith and troth, Like separated souls, All time and space controls ; Above the highest sphere we meet Unseen, unknown, and greet as angels greet So then we do anticipate Our after fate. And are alive i
Página 397 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots
Página 369 - The opening of the gates of Hell— " — on a sudden, open fly, With impetuous recoil, and jarring sound, The infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

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