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“Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked—as Kosciusko fell!”
Part I, line 381
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“In life's morning march, when my bosom was young.”
The Soldier's Dream http://www.bartleby.com/106/267.html
“There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.”
Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 2 http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3042&poem=17248; a poem about the Battle of Copenhagen
“But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.”
The Soldier's Dream http://www.bartleby.com/106/267.html
“On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.”
Part I, line 385
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Part III, stanza 37
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
“To bear is to conquer our fate.”
On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
O'Connor's Child, Stanza 10
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”
Part II, line 37
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!”
Part II, line 263
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Song of the Greeks
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”
Part II, line 357
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“And rustic life and poverty
Grow beautiful beneath his touch.”
Ode to the Memory of Burns
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Soldier's Dream http://www.bartleby.com/106/267.html
“There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”
Part II, line 95
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”
Part II, line 45
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
