Selected Lyrics from Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and BurnsCharles Swain Thomas Houghton Mifflin, 1913 - 89 էջ |
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... from his dewy wings . O Music ! sphere - descended maid , Friend of Pleasure , Wisdom's aid ! Why , goddess ! why , to us denied , Lay'st thou thy ancient lyre aside ? 95 As in that loved Athenian bower You learn'd an all COLLINS 15.
... from his dewy wings . O Music ! sphere - descended maid , Friend of Pleasure , Wisdom's aid ! Why , goddess ! why , to us denied , Lay'st thou thy ancient lyre aside ? 95 As in that loved Athenian bower You learn'd an all COLLINS 15.
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... ancient people , are always dreaming out their old stories of the winds . At the foot of one of these squats me , I , ( il pen- seroso ) and there grows to the trunk for a whole morning . The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol ...
... ancient people , are always dreaming out their old stories of the winds . At the foot of one of these squats me , I , ( il pen- seroso ) and there grows to the trunk for a whole morning . The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol ...
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... ancient solitary reign . 4 Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , Each in his narrow cell for ever laid , The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep . 5 The breezy call of ...
... ancient solitary reign . 4 Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , Each in his narrow cell for ever laid , The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep . 5 The breezy call of ...
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... ancients these were considered the four elements which composed the universe . 10 And Music's power obey : Great creative labors were con- ceived by the ancients as produced to the accompaniment of music . 17 Jubal : Gen. 4:21 ...
... ancients these were considered the four elements which composed the universe . 10 And Music's power obey : Great creative labors were con- ceived by the ancients as produced to the accompaniment of music . 17 Jubal : Gen. 4:21 ...
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... ancient art . 42 purple : from the wine . 44 give the hautboys breath : blow the oboes . 45-51 The tone here is distinctly bacchanalian . 52 , 53 See note to line 38 . 58 , 59 Designate the antecedent of each pronoun here . 59 Muse ...
... ancient art . 42 purple : from the wine . 44 give the hautboys breath : blow the oboes . 45-51 The tone here is distinctly bacchanalian . 52 , 53 See note to line 38 . 58 , 59 Designate the antecedent of each pronoun here . 59 Muse ...
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Էջ 64 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Էջ 37 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite 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 64 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi...
Էջ 37 - 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 13 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Էջ 24 - Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Էջ 48 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his...
Էջ 38 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Էջ 7 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Էջ 17 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.