Pains of the Imagination: A Poem, Read Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Dartmouth College, August 19, 1824From the Commercial Gazette Press, 1824 - 25 pages A contribution in heroic couplets to the series of descriptive poems imitating Akenside, Rogers and Campbell, composed for the annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Dartmouth College. |
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Pains of the Imagination: A Poem, Read Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at ... Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter No preview available - 2018 |
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ador'd afar Akenside amidst anguish bards battle ring beams Behold yon blaz'd blend blest blue expanse bosom breast brow burning checquered cheer clime cloud curst dark Deluge design'd desolation dismal doom'd dreary E'en earth eternal fame fancy feel fierce freedom gale genius gloom glory grave gush Hath swept haunted heart heaven heaven's bright Hence let hollow images imagination Imagination's isle lawless life's light lingering loathsome lorn lyre Mantles melancholy mercy metaphysical mind mingle mock mountain murmurs muse night o'er ocean's billows pain pale pang passion blind path pursues perchance pestilence plains pleasure poem pride realms reign rence roll ruin scene scorpion Scourge sequester'd seraph shade shadowy shore skies sordid soul spectres spirit spring stagnant star sting streams Superstition Survey'd swell sympathetic woe taste tear tempest rave themes thine thou throne Twas vision sheds wayward weal weary wheel wild wreaths