A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. TrenchRichard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) 1868 |
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... extent has proved the case , that of more than three hundred pieces which compose this volume , less than seventy have appeared in his . And it is easy to perceive how this should be . His is a Treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems.
... extent has proved the case , that of more than three hundred pieces which compose this volume , less than seventy have appeared in his . And it is easy to perceive how this should be . His is a Treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems.
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... songs and lyrical poems in the English Language , and of these exclusively ; but within this circle he proposes to include all which is of first - rate excel- lence in our language by authors not living . My scheme is at once broader ...
... songs and lyrical poems in the English Language , and of these exclusively ; but within this circle he proposes to include all which is of first - rate excel- lence in our language by authors not living . My scheme is at once broader ...
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... song . Others on the contrary , of not higher , or it may be not nearly so high , a gift , have put a large part of ... Songs - these certainly being in themselves much , but still little when compared with what is passed by . Again ...
... song . Others on the contrary , of not higher , or it may be not nearly so high , a gift , have put a large part of ... Songs - these certainly being in themselves much , but still little when compared with what is passed by . Again ...
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... soon perceive the little larks , The lapwing and the snipe , And tune their songs , like Nature's clerks , 15 O'er meadow , muir , and stripe . Our hemisphere is polished clean , And lightened more and ΙΟ A Household Book 5 ...
... soon perceive the little larks , The lapwing and the snipe , And tune their songs , like Nature's clerks , 15 O'er meadow , muir , and stripe . Our hemisphere is polished clean , And lightened more and ΙΟ A Household Book 5 ...
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... song playèd he : Adieu Love , adieu Love , untrue Love , Untrue Love , untrue Love , adieu Love ; Your mind is light , soon lost for new love . So long as I was in your sight , I was your heart , your soul , and treasure ; And evermore ...
... song playèd he : Adieu Love , adieu Love , untrue Love , Untrue Love , untrue Love , adieu Love ; Your mind is light , soon lost for new love . So long as I was in your sight , I was your heart , your soul , and treasure ; And evermore ...
Common terms and phrases
Alfred Tennyson Ambrose Philips Anon beauty Ben Jonson beneath bird bonnie braes breast breath bright busk cloth clouds crown dark dead dear death deep delight dost doth dream earth English English Poetry eyes fair fame fancy fear flowers glory golden grace grave gray green grief hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven Henry Vaughan honour hope hour John Milton King light lines live look Lord Lycidas mind morn mother mourn Muse ne'er never night numbers o'er pale peace Percy Bysshe Shelley pleasure poem poet poetry praise rose Samuel Taylor Coleridge shade shine sigh sing sleep smile song SONNET sorrow soul spirit spring stars sweet tears tell thee thine thou art thought trees voice weep wild William Davenant William Shakespeare William Wordsworth wind woods Yarrow youth ΙΟ
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Էջ 215 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Էջ 286 - Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Էջ 215 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Էջ 250 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Էջ 273 - Of all this unintelligible world. Is lightened:— that serene and blessed mood. In which the affections gently lead us on.— Until. the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended. we are laid asleep In body. and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony. and the deep power of joy. We see into the life of things.
Էջ 345 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Էջ 144 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Էջ 381 - And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Էջ 51 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Էջ 32 - Nay I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free ; Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, '° When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes: Now if thou would'st, when all have given...