imprest
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His version is this:— "Enough for me, if to some feeling breast, My lines a secret sympathy convey; And as their pleasing influence is imprest, A sigh of soft reflection heave for Gray."
From Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
The chosen angels, and the spirits blest, Celestial tenants, on that glorious day My Lady join'd them, throng'd in bright array Around her, with amaze and awe imprest.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
A heart where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune lost, nor yet represt, To swell in wealth, or yield unto mischance.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
I welcome thy spray As the prairie-bound hunter The dawning of day; No shackles have bound thee, No tyrant imprest The mark of the Pale face On torrent and crest.
From Indian Legends and Other Poems by Mary Gardiner Horsford
While mony a kiss the seal imprest, The sacred vow,—we ne’er should sever.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
