The Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyRobert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck Harper & brothers, 1858 - 616 էջ |
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... o'er the sky advanc'd the kindling dawn , The crimson cloud , blue main , and mountain grey , And lake , dim gleaming on the smoky lawn : Far to the West the long , long vale withdrawn , Where twilight loves to linger for awhile ; And ...
... o'er the sky advanc'd the kindling dawn , The crimson cloud , blue main , and mountain grey , And lake , dim gleaming on the smoky lawn : Far to the West the long , long vale withdrawn , Where twilight loves to linger for awhile ; And ...
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... o'er , And cool , and fresh , and fragrant is the sky . And , lo ! in the dark East , expanded high , The rainbow brightens to the setting sun ! Fond fool , that deem'st the streaming glory nigh ; How vain the chase thine ardour has ...
... o'er , And cool , and fresh , and fragrant is the sky . And , lo ! in the dark East , expanded high , The rainbow brightens to the setting sun ! Fond fool , that deem'st the streaming glory nigh ; How vain the chase thine ardour has ...
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... haunt of man , Along the trembling wilderness to stray , What time the lightning's fierce career began , And o'er heaven's rending arch the rattling thunder ran . THITHER he hied , enamour'd of the scene ; For 5 BEATTIE . 51 CALM AND STORM.
... haunt of man , Along the trembling wilderness to stray , What time the lightning's fierce career began , And o'er heaven's rending arch the rattling thunder ran . THITHER he hied , enamour'd of the scene ; For 5 BEATTIE . 51 CALM AND STORM.
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... o'er the gloomy stream ; — Whence the scar'd owl on pinions gray Breaks from the rustling boughs , And down the lone vale sails away To more profound repose . O , while to thee the woodland pours Its wildly warbling song , And balmy ...
... o'er the gloomy stream ; — Whence the scar'd owl on pinions gray Breaks from the rustling boughs , And down the lone vale sails away To more profound repose . O , while to thee the woodland pours Its wildly warbling song , And balmy ...
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... o'er thy sorrowing son , Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me , though unfelt , a kiss ; Perhaps a tear , if souls can weep in bliss- Ah , that maternal smile ! -it answers - Yes . I heard the bell toll ...
... o'er thy sorrowing son , Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me , though unfelt , a kiss ; Perhaps a tear , if souls can weep in bliss- Ah , that maternal smile ! -it answers - Yes . I heard the bell toll ...
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Էջ 138 - Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hillside; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?
Էջ 486 - My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow.
Էջ 175 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, \ Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Էջ 137 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Էջ 155 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, ( A lovelier flower On earth was never sown: This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. ' Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, in rock and plain In earth and heaven, in glade and bower Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Էջ 446 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend ? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Էջ 221 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Էջ 20 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents pass'd into the skies.
Էջ 480 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the Pass!
Էջ 445 - Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.