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Memories of Some Contemporary Poets, With Selections From Their Writings, by E. Taylor
Memories of Some Contemporary Poets With Selections From Their Writings by E Taylor Author:Emily Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Thence may thy pure devotion's flame On me, on me descend ; To me thy strong aspiring hopes, Thy faith, thy fervours lend. Let these my lonely path illume, And teach my weakened mind To welcome all that's left of good, To all that's lost resigned. Farewell! With honour, peace, and love, Be thy dear memory blest ! Thou hast no tears for me to shed, When I too am at rest. LIFE. Animula, vagula, blandula. Life ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me's a secret yet. But this I know, when thou art fled, Where'er they lay these limbs, this head, No clod so valueless shall be, As all that then remains of me. O whither, whither dost thou fly, Where bend unseen thy trackless course, And in this strange divorce, Ah, tell where I must seek this compound I ? To the vast ocean of empyreal flame, From whence thy essence came, Dost thou thy flight pursue, when freed From matter's base, encumbering weed ? Or dost thou, hid from sight, Wait, like some spell-bound knight, Through blank, oblivious years, th' appointed hour, To break thy trance and reassume thy power ? Yet canst thou without thought or feeling be ? O say, what art thou, when no more thou'rt thee ? Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good night, but . in some brighter clime Bid me Good morning. FOR EASTER SUNDAY. Again the Lord of lif...« less