Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. BowmanG. Routledge, 1856 - 292 էջ |
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... things upon earth , Life's no longer than thy mirth . Happy insect ! happy thou , Dost neither age nor winter know . But when thou'st drunk , and danced , and sung Thy fill , the flow'ry leaves among , Sated with thy summer feast , Thou ...
... things upon earth , Life's no longer than thy mirth . Happy insect ! happy thou , Dost neither age nor winter know . But when thou'st drunk , and danced , and sung Thy fill , the flow'ry leaves among , Sated with thy summer feast , Thou ...
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... things : Enthroned o'er all , a desolation frowns , Save mind , omnipotent , surpassing mind ! One scintillation of a soul inspired , Though kindled in an atmosphere of gloom , Or loneliness , will strengthen , glow , and live , And ...
... things : Enthroned o'er all , a desolation frowns , Save mind , omnipotent , surpassing mind ! One scintillation of a soul inspired , Though kindled in an atmosphere of gloom , Or loneliness , will strengthen , glow , and live , And ...
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... and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide ; And many a childing mother then And new - born infant died ; But things like that , you know , must be At every famous victory . 71 " They say it was a shocking sight , After.
... and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide ; And many a childing mother then And new - born infant died ; But things like that , you know , must be At every famous victory . 71 " They say it was a shocking sight , After.
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... things like that , you know , must be After a famous victory . " Great praise the Duke of Marlbro ' won , And our good Prince Eugene . " " Why , ' twas a very wicked thing ! " Said little Wilhelmine . " Nay - nay , my little girl ...
... things like that , you know , must be After a famous victory . " Great praise the Duke of Marlbro ' won , And our good Prince Eugene . " " Why , ' twas a very wicked thing ! " Said little Wilhelmine . " Nay - nay , my little girl ...
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... things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down , And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade . Some men with swords may reap the field , And ...
... things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down , And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade . Some men with swords may reap the field , And ...
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Common terms and phrases
aweary banners battle BATTLE OF BLENHEIM BATTLE OF WATERLOO beauty beneath billows birds blast blow bower breast breath bright brow busy bee clouds dark dead death deep dost doth dreadful earth eternal ETON COLLEGE eyes fair Father fear flowers forest gale gleam gloom glory glow grave green GRONGAR HILL hast hath hear heard heart heaven HERBERT KNOWLES hill hour LAKE REGILLUS land leaves light Lochiel lonely midnight moon morn mountains Nature's night nursling o'er painted banks pale plain pride proud purple rise rocks rolling round sculptured mountains seem'd shade sight sing skies sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spread spring star stock dove storm stream sweet tawny eagle tears tempest thee thine thou busy tree trembling twas vale vernal voice wave wild winds wings wood youth
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Էջ 20 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Էջ 37 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Էջ 11 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Էջ 54 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?
Էջ 77 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Էջ 15 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee...
Էջ 196 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Էջ 74 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day: The...
Էջ 192 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Էջ 45 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee In a flood of day...