The Book of Living PoetsWalter Jerrold Alston Rivers, Limited, 1907 - 375 էջ |
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... hills and sky , How dear your beauty to my sight ! The wintry noon , the sea's delight , The ruddy moorland far and high , The pendant larch's silver white , The golden wind - blown leaves that lie- How I thank God for all this light ...
... hills and sky , How dear your beauty to my sight ! The wintry noon , the sea's delight , The ruddy moorland far and high , The pendant larch's silver white , The golden wind - blown leaves that lie- How I thank God for all this light ...
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... hill The gorse seems thirsting for the rain ; but far , Low poised on the horizon line , a star Shines , lonely still . The Invitation . ACROSS the stream , the aspen branches 16 MAY BATEMAN . An Impression (Temple Bar)
... hill The gorse seems thirsting for the rain ; but far , Low poised on the horizon line , a star Shines , lonely still . The Invitation . ACROSS the stream , the aspen branches 16 MAY BATEMAN . An Impression (Temple Bar)
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... hill , And tho ' I hurry and pant , his pace is slow ; Yet shall I see his sunny face and hair ( For he will surely come to meet me ) there In the last valley somewhere , that I know . What tho ' he pauses in the pleasant wheat To watch ...
... hill , And tho ' I hurry and pant , his pace is slow ; Yet shall I see his sunny face and hair ( For he will surely come to meet me ) there In the last valley somewhere , that I know . What tho ' he pauses in the pleasant wheat To watch ...
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... hills of the South Country Come back into my mind . The great hills of the South Country They stand along the sea : And it's there walking in the high woods That I could wish to be , And the men that were boys when I was a boy Walking ...
... hills of the South Country Come back into my mind . The great hills of the South Country They stand along the sea : And it's there walking in the high woods That I could wish to be , And the men that were boys when I was a boy Walking ...
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... castle out , And all his harness was of burnished gold , Who , pricking fast towards the rising sun , Was gone beyond the hills upon his battle - steed . P Chanclebury Ring . SAY what you will , there is 47 WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT .
... castle out , And all his harness was of burnished gold , Who , pricking fast towards the rising sun , Was gone beyond the hills upon his battle - steed . P Chanclebury Ring . SAY what you will , there is 47 WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT .
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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.