The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Fifth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
On the next morrow, early, rose the king; And sat upon his throne: at his right hand, The heroic queen: ...
Meantime, Arbaces with his captains sat, Anxiously waiting. Wherefore came not back Their heralds, was the wonder: but the truth ...
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
Three times the glorious god of light, and life, Along the sapphire pavement of the sky Careering,--through the immense of ...
The sun hath set; the outworn armies sleep: But, in Arbaces' tent, by summons called For counsel secret on things ...
The jocund years with smiling plenty crown'd,In shining circles now advanc'd their round:Unbounded crops reward the reaper's toil,And rustick pleasures ...
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
On Nineveh's proud towers the sinking sun In cloudless splendor looks; nor, through the earth, Like glory doth behold. In ...
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ll. 169-191)….It did not seem good to the Lord of heaven thatAdam should longer be alone as warden and keeper ...
When the sea is still as glass,And the whispering breezes passOn messages from zone to zone, or waft from pole ...
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim ...
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages; With all which, had it not ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
ONE night we were together, you and I, And had unsown Assyria for a lair, Before the walls of Babylon ...
I LOOKED one night, and there the Semiramis, With all her mourning doves about her head, Sat rocking on an ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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