Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the AuthorJohn Taylor, Bookseller, 1866 - 173 էջ |
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... death has laid his cold hand upon him , and his merits , acknowledged by the discerning class , are in the mouths of all men . Those who are , on the other hand , thinkers as well as readers , know that true Poets are men of fine ...
... death has laid his cold hand upon him , and his merits , acknowledged by the discerning class , are in the mouths of all men . Those who are , on the other hand , thinkers as well as readers , know that true Poets are men of fine ...
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... death . The thunder is not so much an elemental uproar as it is the voice of God . The stars are not so much distant worlds as they are eyes looking down on men with intelligence , sympathy , and love . The ocean is not a dead mass of ...
... death . The thunder is not so much an elemental uproar as it is the voice of God . The stars are not so much distant worlds as they are eyes looking down on men with intelligence , sympathy , and love . The ocean is not a dead mass of ...
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... death relinquished it , in order to assist his mother . In such duties he passed his early years , diversified only by those amusements and little episodes which generally make up the every - day life in small towns , of young men who ...
... death relinquished it , in order to assist his mother . In such duties he passed his early years , diversified only by those amusements and little episodes which generally make up the every - day life in small towns , of young men who ...
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... death with pageant glory lighting up his spirit's Ere he marshall'd on the morrow slaughter'd squadrons to the tomb ? funereal tones , From the dark beleagur'd city came the clang of matin bells , [ misty dells ; Floating o'er the hoary ...
... death with pageant glory lighting up his spirit's Ere he marshall'd on the morrow slaughter'd squadrons to the tomb ? funereal tones , From the dark beleagur'd city came the clang of matin bells , [ misty dells ; Floating o'er the hoary ...
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... death ; [ free ; And ever may thy free - born sons be generous , just , and My Highland glen , my native land ! I ask no more for thee . THE ELOQUENCE OF TEARS . I love the eye , when sympathetic feeling Opes its transparent flood ...
... death ; [ free ; And ever may thy free - born sons be generous , just , and My Highland glen , my native land ! I ask no more for thee . THE ELOQUENCE OF TEARS . I love the eye , when sympathetic feeling Opes its transparent flood ...
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Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the Author Robert Duthie Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1866 |
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art thou awake beaming beauty bliss blood bosom break breast breath breeze brim brow burst chamois clouds dance dark death deep dream e'en earth echoes echoing song eloquence fancy feel fire fretful friends frown give glory hail hand happy haste hath hear heart heaven helmet of Navarre helots Henry of Navarre Here's a health Hielan Highland glen holy hope Hurrah Ladye love laughter life's light lips Lisping live loud lyre Macbeth Mayenne melody merry merry heart mind mirth nature Nature's ne'er never night o'er patriots peal pearls of dew poet poetic poetry Queen rain rills Robert Duthie round Sarmatia scene seraph shade sigh sing sleeping smiles song sorrow soul spirit spring Stonehaven summer sunny Suwarrow sweet sympathies tears thee thine thou art thought thunder tone tongue tree true truth waves ween wild wing youth
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Էջ 160 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Էջ 175 - was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe: Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Էջ 162 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Էջ 173 - And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Էջ 178 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops...
Էջ 177 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds...
Էջ 174 - And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for His own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Էջ 164 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
Էջ 161 - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand: For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand...
Էջ 154 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.