The earth worm is creeping
The mourners are weeping
Ding dong, bell–
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THE world’s great age begins anew,
The earth doth like a snake renewHer winter weeds outworn;Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleamLike wrecks of a dissolving dream.A brighter Hellas rears its mountainsFrom waves serener far;A new Peneus rolls his fountainsAgainst the morning star;Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleepYoung Cyclads on a sunnier deep.A loftier Argo cleaves the main,Fraught with a later…
Yes! all is past–swift time has fled away,
How long will horror nerve this frame of clay?I’m dead, and lingers yet my soul behind.Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell,And yet that may not ever, ever be,Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell;Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me;Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny.I sought the cold brink…
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To live alone, an isolated thing?To see the busy beings round thee spring,And care for none; in thy calm solitude,A flower that scarce breathes in the desert rudeTo Zephyr’s passing wing?II.Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove,Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother’s hate,Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fateAs that poor…
How sweet it is to sit and read the tales
Sweet music, which when the attention failsFills the dim pause–
Wealth and dominion fade into the mass
When once from our possession they must pass;But love, though misdirected, is amongThe things which are immortal, and surpassAll that frail stuff which will be–or which was.
Night, with all thine eyes look down!
When ever smiled the inconstant moonOn a pair so true?Hence, coy hour! and quench thy light,Lest eyes see their own delight!Hence, swift hour! and thy loved flightOft renew.BOYS:O joy! O fear! what may be doneIn the absence of the sun?Come along!The golden gates of sleep unbar!When strength and beauty meet together,Kindles their image like a…