The Book of Living PoetsWalter Jerrold Alston Rivers, Limited, 1907 - 375 էջ |
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... give , and you will take , our luck is great and small . " " You are thankless , Con Neill , so I fear me , forgetting the promise I gave , And the gift of my choosing to throw for , and draw to you out of the wave ; Yet perchance ' tis ...
... give , and you will take , our luck is great and small . " " You are thankless , Con Neill , so I fear me , forgetting the promise I gave , And the gift of my choosing to throw for , and draw to you out of the wave ; Yet perchance ' tis ...
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... had nothing am now rich for you . Buy with my gold the thing you count divine : Earth often gives what is refused above , And mortals pay the debt from heaven due . The Song in the Valley . How softly comes the 68 ETHEL CLIFFORD .
... had nothing am now rich for you . Buy with my gold the thing you count divine : Earth often gives what is refused above , And mortals pay the debt from heaven due . The Song in the Valley . How softly comes the 68 ETHEL CLIFFORD .
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... Give me your hand and draw me through the porch Of sleep , the sanctuary of pilgrim hearts . Old - Fashioned Love . LOVE is a baron with 69 ETHEL CLIFFORD . Clifford, Ethel Had Sappho Lived (" Love's Journey "—John Lane) The Song in the ...
... Give me your hand and draw me through the porch Of sleep , the sanctuary of pilgrim hearts . Old - Fashioned Love . LOVE is a baron with 69 ETHEL CLIFFORD . Clifford, Ethel Had Sappho Lived (" Love's Journey "—John Lane) The Song in the ...
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... give us wings to overpass the steep Ramparts of Heaven which God's angels keep : Wide is the " great gulf fixed " : for us the mounds Of fresh - turned earth ; above , sweet peace surrounds The painless patience of eternal sleep . Song ...
... give us wings to overpass the steep Ramparts of Heaven which God's angels keep : Wide is the " great gulf fixed " : for us the mounds Of fresh - turned earth ; above , sweet peace surrounds The painless patience of eternal sleep . Song ...
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... give you all our shares Of luscious harvest plums and William pears . We never had such apples here before , And plumper , sweeter filberts never grew ; And on the grape - vine by the garden door There still is left a goodly bunch or ...
... give you all our shares Of luscious harvest plums and William pears . We never had such apples here before , And plumper , sweeter filberts never grew ; And on the grape - vine by the garden door There still is left a goodly bunch or ...
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Էջ 295 - For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins ; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins ; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
Էջ 223 - ... Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven, An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago." Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come, (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?), Slung atween the round shot, listenin' for the drum, An' dreamin' arl the time o
Էջ 137 - An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for...
Էջ 227 - ... them and they answer: from aisles of oak and ash Rings the Follow! Follow! and the boughs begin to crash; The ferns begin to flutter and the flowers begin to fly; And through the crimson dawning the robber band goes by. Robin! Robin!
Էջ 185 - Arrtifex ! That holds, in spite o' knock and scale, o' friction, waste an' slip, An' by that light — now, mark my word — we'll build the Perfect Ship. I'll never last to judge her lines or take her curve — not I. But I ha' lived an' I ha
Էջ 285 - WHEN I had wings, my brother, Such wings were mine as thine : Such life my heart remembers In all as wild Septembers As this when life seems other, Though sweet, than once was mine ; When I had wings, my brother, Such wings were mine as thine.
Էջ 136 - THE DARKLING THRUSH I LEANT upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse...
Էջ 201 - Oh, just beyond the fairest thoughts that throng This breast, the thought of thee waits, hidden yet bright ; But it must never, never come in sight ; I must stop short of thee the whole day long.
Էջ 222 - Drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand mile away, (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below ?) Slung atween the round shot in Nombre Dios Bay, An' dreamin' arl the time o
Էջ 290 - A FORSAKEN GARDEN In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.