The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One VolumeJ. Grigg, 1831 - 470 pages |
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... death to shoot forth with each ray ; Thy faith gave to fear and fatigue no indulgence , But on to the goal urged thy perilous way ! And , martyr of zeal ! thou e'en here wert rewarded , When the dark sons of India came round thee in ...
... death to shoot forth with each ray ; Thy faith gave to fear and fatigue no indulgence , But on to the goal urged thy perilous way ! And , martyr of zeal ! thou e'en here wert rewarded , When the dark sons of India came round thee in ...
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... Death and Hell defeated ! Now empty are the courts of death , And crushed thy sting , despair : And roses bloom in the desert tomb , For Jesus hath been there ! And he hath tamed the strength of hell , And dragged him through the sky ...
... Death and Hell defeated ! Now empty are the courts of death , And crushed thy sting , despair : And roses bloom in the desert tomb , For Jesus hath been there ! And he hath tamed the strength of hell , And dragged him through the sky ...
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... death , Faint , bleeding , and alone ! " " How cam'st thou to this dismal strand Of danger , grief , and shame ? " " From blessed Sion's holy land , By folly led , I came ! " " What ruffian hand hath stript thee bare ? Whose fury laid ...
... death , Faint , bleeding , and alone ! " " How cam'st thou to this dismal strand Of danger , grief , and shame ? " " From blessed Sion's holy land , By folly led , I came ! " " What ruffian hand hath stript thee bare ? Whose fury laid ...
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... DEATH OF A FRIEND . THOU art gone to the grave ! but we will not de- plore thee , Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb : Thy Saviour has passed through its portal before thee , And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the ...
... DEATH OF A FRIEND . THOU art gone to the grave ! but we will not de- plore thee , Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb : Thy Saviour has passed through its portal before thee , And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the ...
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... death . And from above the thunders answered still , 66 Ye knew your duty , but ye did it not . ” And every where throughout that horrid den , He sat , clothed in white robes ; and o'er his head I saw a form of excellence , a form A ...
... death . And from above the thunders answered still , 66 Ye knew your duty , but ye did it not . ” And every where throughout that horrid den , He sat , clothed in white robes ; and o'er his head I saw a form of excellence , a form A ...
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Page 9 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 22 - Holy, holy, holy, all the saints adore thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea ; Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee, Which wert and art and evermore shalt be.
Page 285 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form.
Page 278 - Is it when spring's first gale Comes forth to whisper where the violets lie? Is it when roses in our paths grow pale? They have one season — all are ours, to die!
Page 27 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign ! 727 Psalm 60.
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Page 304 - THE stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ; The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Page 18 - His head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore Him in slumber reclining, Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all ! 3.
Page 268 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 7 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.