There is a spot of earth supremely blest — A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest — Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband ,... The West Indies, and Other Poems - Стр. 32авторы: James Montgomery - 1823 - Страниц: 160Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1811 - Страниц: 424
...love-exalted youth : The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchantmg shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend : Here woman reigns ;... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1811 - Страниц: 456
...peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest гясе, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, Л dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man,...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend: Here woman reigns; the... | |
| 1812 - Страниц: 470
...every clime the magnet of his soul, Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole; For in this landof heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's...man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and scepire, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend ' The sire, the son, the husband,... | |
| Priscilla Wakefield - 1814 - Страниц: 396
...in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot on earth, supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his soften'd looks, benignly blend, The sire, the son> the husband, brother, friend. Here woman reigns,... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - Страниц: 414
...the magnet of his soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of Heav'n's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race,...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride. While in his goften'd looks benignly blend Tne sire, the son, the hushand, father, friend : Here woman reigns; the... | |
| 1818 - Страниц: 596
...soul, Touch'd by remembrance, trembles to that polii For in this land of heaven's peculiar gract*, The heritage of nature's noblest race ; There is a...the rest; Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside Mis sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride; While in his soflen'd looks benignly blend The sire, (he... | |
| 1818 - Страниц: 166
...keen the pang, when I recollected my father's house, so aptly expressed in the words of a poet : 28 *' There is a spot of earth supremely blest, " A dearer,...creation's tyrant casts aside " His sword and sceptre, pagantry and pride, " While in his softened looks benignly blend " The sire, the son, the husband,... | |
| British melodies - 1820 - Страниц: 280
...and fair, Nor breathes the spirit, of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touch' (1 by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend : Here woman reigns ;... | |
| James Montgomery - 1821 - Страниц: 294
...purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touched by remembrance, trembles to that, pole : i For in this land of Heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend : Here woman reigns ;... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - Страниц: 844
...morning dew distils, And all the air is love. Montgomery thus speaks of the pleasures of home : — There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer,...sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend ; Here woman reigns ;... | |
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