Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the AuthorJohn Taylor, Bookseller, 1866 - 173 էջ |
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... 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 waters , it is a " glorious mirror of the Almighty's form . " The sky ...
... 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 waters , it is a " glorious mirror of the Almighty's form . " The sky ...
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... voices through the midnight , echoing- " they come ! they come ! " [ alarms . Then with wilder'd looks upstarting at those fancied war- Straight they'd grasp their gleaming sabres , straight [ fears , And the war - horse too partaking ...
... voices through the midnight , echoing- " they come ! they come ! " [ alarms . Then with wilder'd looks upstarting at those fancied war- Straight they'd grasp their gleaming sabres , straight [ fears , And the war - horse too partaking ...
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... voice I hear , my Highland glen in Nor suppliant tones of cringing serf upon his bended knee ; Ah no ! for freedom's flag unfurl'd in freedom's glorious fight , Hath long proclaim'd our powerful arm asserts the free- man's right . My ...
... voice I hear , my Highland glen in Nor suppliant tones of cringing serf upon his bended knee ; Ah no ! for freedom's flag unfurl'd in freedom's glorious fight , Hath long proclaim'd our powerful arm asserts the free- man's right . My ...
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... voice of Nature in her wonted evening From the wind - stirr'd leaves above us , from the rippling brook below , From the sweet Eolian breezes breaking on the moun- tain's brow , [ caves , From the ocean's shelly margin , from the ...
... voice of Nature in her wonted evening From the wind - stirr'd leaves above us , from the rippling brook below , From the sweet Eolian breezes breaking on the moun- tain's brow , [ caves , From the ocean's shelly margin , from the ...
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Robert Duthie. And her voice was melting music - perfect in its every tone , [ might own- As she stirr'd her lips in language - accents angels well Speaking thus - Oh ! curious dreamer , from thy visage I [ thought ; What thy soul is ...
Robert Duthie. And her voice was melting music - perfect in its every tone , [ might own- As she stirr'd her lips in language - accents angels well Speaking thus - Oh ! curious dreamer , from thy visage I [ thought ; What thy soul is ...
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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 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 steal 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.