Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors: From Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 2Robert Chambers Gould & Lincoln, 1851 - English literature |
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... green : By unperceived degrees he wears away ; Yet , like the sun , seems larger at his setting ! High in his faith and hopes , look how he reaches After the prize in view ! and , like a bird That's hampered , struggles hard to get away ...
... green : By unperceived degrees he wears away ; Yet , like the sun , seems larger at his setting ! High in his faith and hopes , look how he reaches After the prize in view ! and , like a bird That's hampered , struggles hard to get away ...
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... green earth , to distant barbarous climes , Rivers unknown to song ; where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains , or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles , ' tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present , ever felt , In the ...
... green earth , to distant barbarous climes , Rivers unknown to song ; where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains , or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles , ' tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present , ever felt , In the ...
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... green bosom of this earth are found , And all old ocean genders in his round ; Some hand unseen these silently displayed , Even undemanded by a sign or sound ; You need but wish , and , instantly obeyed , In silent ease ; as when ...
... green bosom of this earth are found , And all old ocean genders in his round ; Some hand unseen these silently displayed , Even undemanded by a sign or sound ; You need but wish , and , instantly obeyed , In silent ease ; as when ...
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... green grows , green grows the grass , Yellow on Yarrow bank the gowan , Fair hangs the apple frae the rock , Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowan . Flows Yarrow sweet ? as sweet , as sweet flows 24 FROM 1727 το 1780 . CYCLOPÆDIA OF WILLIAM ...
... green grows , green grows the grass , Yellow on Yarrow bank the gowan , Fair hangs the apple frae the rock , Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowan . Flows Yarrow sweet ? as sweet , as sweet flows 24 FROM 1727 το 1780 . CYCLOPÆDIA OF WILLIAM ...
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... green its grass , its gowan as yellow , As sweet smells on its braes the birk , The apple frae the rock as mellow . Fair was thy love , fair fair indeed thy love , In flowery bands thou him didst fetter ; | Though he was fair and weil ...
... green its grass , its gowan as yellow , As sweet smells on its braes the birk , The apple frae the rock as mellow . Fair was thy love , fair fair indeed thy love , In flowery bands thou him didst fetter ; | Though he was fair and weil ...
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CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATU, Volume 2 Robert 1802-1871 Chambers,Robert 1799-1878 Carruthers No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 402 - Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 56 - Dead Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. His listless length at noontide would he stretch. And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 326 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 339 - A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky, Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.
Page 387 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar : I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 325 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will:...
Page 56 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he ; The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 337 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 337 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted— ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 401 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...