Then, animated by the voice divine, He moved toward the plain now all o'erspread By the vast flood on which the bodies swam And shields of many a youth in battle slain.
Bright gleams of joy his cheek o’erspread As each glad word of hope he said; And ne’er will one so valiant deign To cheer our hearts with hope in vain.
Dire was the sight, the plain o’erspread With trophies of the mangled dead.
With trembling limbs away he sped; Then like the moon with clouds o’erspread Gleamed for a moment bright between The trees, and was again unseen.
Around his brow thick smoke-clouds rolled And the three worlds, as if o’erspread With ravening flames, were filled with dread.
He swooned, and giddy mists o'erspread his eyes, But soon revived as on his forehead blew While yet he gasped for breath the cooling breeze.
Then all the sports of pleasure disappear, Then Venus, then gay youth removes: No Thyrsus then which Bacchus loves; But all is clouded and o'erspread with care.
And then a chill Of doubt o'erspread me, knowing what a gulf Fate set between our lives, impassable As that great gulf which yawns 'twixt life and death And 'twixt this Hell and Heaven.
Awe and reverence O'erspread me, as I knew my eyes had looked On sovereign Here, mother of the gods.
LXXII And as the lady nearer he surveyed, Her wise behaviour marked and beauty's bloom; Though her fait countenance was all dismayed, And by the fear of death o'erspread with gloom.
The Kurfuerst intends introducing here the Calvinistic dogma, but he will find it difficult to accustom the population of this great vineyard as the Pfalz is called, to drink water and sing Calvin's psalms.
I will accept any position," replied the young man quickly, "which will free me from the obligation of wearing the robes of a heretic priest, and of submitting to their laws.
Has scarce o'erspread these towers with silver light, And I have lived more years than weeks before.
He watched the sun go down, and darker shades O'erspread his face.
A lovely blush o'erspread Aminta's face, And gave her lily-cheeks superior grace.
Instead of these, a tiger's hide o'erspread Her back and shoulders, fasten'd to her head.
The trembling Trojans hear, O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.
His temples, last, with poppies were o'erspread That nodding seem'd to consecrate his head.
Sir, so well, I'd be loth to anticipate the fame That shortly will o'erspread the city Of his good fortunes.
For Uthal had led his dark host from the blue misty isle of his power; And o'erspread like a cloud of the desert, the land of the white-headed Lorma.
When closing glooms o'erspread the day, And what we love has pass'd away, Ye kindly bid each pleasing scene Within the bosom still remain, Like moons who doth their watches run With the reflected brightness of the parted sun.
Thy perish'd hopes all buried in the flood 680 O'erspread with corses, red with human blood!
Dost thou not see indeed How swifter and how farther must they go And speed through manifold the length of space In time the same that from the sun the rays O'erspread the heaven?
I dare not hear this; pardon, bashful ears, For suffering such a scarlet to o'erspread Your burning portals.
Charoba shrieked and fell away, her hand Still clasping his, a sudden blush o'erspread Her pallid humid cheek, and disappeared.
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