The Book of Living PoetsWalter Jerrold Alston Rivers, Limited, 1907 - 375 էջ |
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... silent ring the girls Watched , all an April morning's misty hours . Not one dared wake him - yet each breast Yearned to be pillow to a thing So fair . " How will he smile ? " thought they , " In waking ? . . . ' But between them ...
... silent ring the girls Watched , all an April morning's misty hours . Not one dared wake him - yet each breast Yearned to be pillow to a thing So fair . " How will he smile ? " thought they , " In waking ? . . . ' But between them ...
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... silent folds , They stiffly plough the field . By them and the God of the South Country My poor soul shall be healed . If I ever become a rich man , Or if ever I grow to be old , I will build a house with a deep thatch To 24 H. BELLOC .
... silent folds , They stiffly plough the field . By them and the God of the South Country My poor soul shall be healed . If I ever become a rich man , Or if ever I grow to be old , I will build a house with a deep thatch To 24 H. BELLOC .
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... silent wells , For water - plants with humid cells , Pink willow - herb and comfray bells . For autumn , and his flaming hand Dashed on the covert , with the brand Of death , and silence subtly planned . For summer indolently fair , For ...
... silent wells , For water - plants with humid cells , Pink willow - herb and comfray bells . For autumn , and his flaming hand Dashed on the covert , with the brand Of death , and silence subtly planned . For summer indolently fair , For ...
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... silent expectation of the morrow , Gazed on the moon , as some fair anchorite On her own chastity , until the sight Made her heart ache . But , as the morning broke , Down the dim lobby came Somandolin , With her thick hair around her ...
... silent expectation of the morrow , Gazed on the moon , as some fair anchorite On her own chastity , until the sight Made her heart ache . But , as the morning broke , Down the dim lobby came Somandolin , With her thick hair around her ...
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... Silent , unmoved and serene . Silent , unmoved and serene , Reigns in a world uncreate , Eldest of Gods and their Queen , Featureless , passionless Fate . Hereafter . οὖλος ὁρᾶ , οὖλος δὲ νοει οὖλος δὲ 73 W. L. COURTNEY .
... Silent , unmoved and serene . Silent , unmoved and serene , Reigns in a world uncreate , Eldest of Gods and their Queen , Featureless , passionless Fate . Hereafter . οὖλος ὁρᾶ , οὖλος δὲ νοει οὖλος δὲ 73 W. L. COURTNEY .
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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.