Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the AuthorJohn Taylor, Bookseller, 1866 - 173 էջ |
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... play ; [ below , And , far above , the mountain frowns upon the scene Where summer reigns , while winter caps its crest with thawless snow . My Highland glen , my Highland glen , enshrining all I love , Full oft through thee at ...
... play ; [ below , And , far above , the mountain frowns upon the scene Where summer reigns , while winter caps its crest with thawless snow . My Highland glen , my Highland glen , enshrining all I love , Full oft through thee at ...
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... play ; And so fitful they fly , That we scarce can descry The pathway they take through the black'ning sky : O ! thou art beautiful , night : In grandeur , how deeply divine ! We love thee ! we love thee , sweet night ! For where are ...
... play ; And so fitful they fly , That we scarce can descry The pathway they take through the black'ning sky : O ! thou art beautiful , night : In grandeur , how deeply divine ! We love thee ! we love thee , sweet night ! For where are ...
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... play ; while in frenzy dire The others call'd on their absent sire . Poor mourners ! they wept and cried in vain ; For ne'er in the vacant chaîr again Will they see their sire , nor upon the hearth Will he mingle more in their joyous ...
... play ; while in frenzy dire The others call'd on their absent sire . Poor mourners ! they wept and cried in vain ; For ne'er in the vacant chaîr again Will they see their sire , nor upon the hearth Will he mingle more in their joyous ...
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... play by thy mother's side , Or sporting in mischief to hear her chide ; Or , with truant feet , in the flowery dell , Thou art bounding along like the wild gazelle . my hand may deck Thrice happy child ! how my 32 POEMS BY TO A LITTLE ...
... play by thy mother's side , Or sporting in mischief to hear her chide ; Or , with truant feet , in the flowery dell , Thou art bounding along like the wild gazelle . my hand may deck Thrice happy child ! how my 32 POEMS BY TO A LITTLE ...
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... play his part , Transforming vice to virtue , black to white- Sainting the sinner - angelizing man— And with a word would devils deify . Vile imp of Tophet ! get thee hence ! begone ! Drag from our view thy cringing reptile form , For ...
... play his part , Transforming vice to virtue , black to white- Sainting the sinner - angelizing man— And with a word would devils deify . Vile imp of Tophet ! get thee hence ! begone ! Drag from our view thy cringing reptile form , For ...
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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.