Airs of Palestine: A PoemWells and Lilly, 1817 - 66 páginas Http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html. |
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AIRS OF PALESTINE banks of palm bard beneath blue bosom breast breathe where Gilead breeze bright Carmel's holy grots charm'd Cherubim cloud couch with Sharon's coursers court repose crosier dark deck my mossy deep'ning shade double rhyme earth Esquire flings flow folds foot in Hermon's Gilead sheds glowing green grots I'll court harp hears Heaven Hermon's dews hill holy grots I'll humble hush'd I'll court repose Isaiah's muse Israel John Pierpont Jordan's banks Lark-like light love the promptings love to breathe love to wet lyre melody melting midnight minstrel mossy couch mountain night numbers o'er pilgrim promptings of Isaiah's prophetick publick quire quivering robe rocks roll seraphs Sharon's deathless rose shepherd shore shroud sighs silence sings skies smiles song Spirit storm strain stream strings swell thee thou throws thunders thy throne tide trembling UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN vale vault wake walk on Jordan's wave wet my foot whisper wings
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Página 37 - His parch'd and hissing throat breathes hot and dry ; A spark of hell lies burning on his eye : While, like a vapour, o'er his writhing rings, Whirls his light tail, that threatens while it sings. Soon as dumb Fear removes her icy fingers From off...
Página 27 - Stretch'd their loose wings, and in the purple air. Hung o'er the sleepless guardians of the fold ; — When that high anthem, clear, and strong, and bold, On wavy paths of trembling ether ran — " Glory to God — Benevolence to man — Peace to the world...
Página 39 - ... why pant for brighter bliss, A lovelier scene, a sweeter song, than this ! On Caledonia's hills, the ruddy morn Breathes fresh : — the huntsman winds his clamorous horn The youthful minstrel from his pallet springs, Seizes his harp, and tunes its slumbering strings. Lark-like he mounts o'er gray rocks, thunder-riven, Lark-like he cleaves the white mist, tempest-driven, And lark-like carols, as the cliff he climbs, Whose oaks were vocal with his earliest rhymes.
Página 25 - And to the hall the ruddy minstrel bring, Where sits a being, that was once a king. Still on his brow the crown of Israel gleams, And cringing courtiers still adore its beams, Though the bright circle throws no light divine, But rays of hell, that melt it while they shine. As the young harper tries each quivering wire, It leaps and sparkles with prophetic fire, And, with the kindling song, the kindling rays Around his fingers tremulously blaze, Till the whole hall, like those blest fields above,...
Página 26 - Those azure regions had been peopled long, With Fancy's children, by the sons of song: And there, the simple shepherd, conning o'er His humble pittance of Chaldean lore, Saw, in the stillness of a starry night, The Swan and Eagle wing their silent flight; And, from their spangled pinions, as they flew, On Israel's vales of verdure shower the dew; Saw there the brilliant gems, that nightly flare, In the thin mist of Berenice's hair; And there, Bootes roll his lucid wain, On sparkling wheels, along...
Página 23 - Where spreads a desert prospect, wild and wide, The prophet sees, with reverential dread, Dark Sinai rear his thunder-blasted head ; Where erst was pour'd on trembling Israel's ear, A stormier peal, that Moses quaked to hear. In what tremendous pomp Jehovah shone, When on that mount he fix'd his burning throne ! Thick, round its base, a shuddering gloom was flung ; Black, on its breast, a thunder-cloud was hung : Bright, through that blackness, arrowy lightnings came, Shot from the glowing vail,...
Página 5 - No, no — a lonelier, lovelier path be mine ; Greece and her charms I leave for Palestine. There purer streams through happier valleys flow, And sweeter flowers on holier mountains blow. I love to breathe where Gilead sheds her balm ; I love to walk on Jordan's banks of palm ; I love to wet my foot in Hermon's dews ; I love the promptings of Isaiah's muse : In Carmel's holy grots I'll court repose, And deck my mossy couch with Sharon's deathless rose.
Página 37 - Music's air around, And meets his foe upon enchanted ground. See ! as the plaintive melody is flung, The lightning flash fades on the serpent's tongue ; The uncoiling reptile o'er each shining fold Throws changeful clouds of azure, green, and gold ; A softer lustre twinkles in his eye ; His neck is burnish'd with a glossier dye ; His slippery scales grow smoother to the sight, And his relaxing circles roll in light. Slowly the charm retires : with waving sides, Along its track the graceful listener...