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... verse . It was proposed , in the critical pieces , to retain the extracts ' with which they were originally adorned , as this would give them far more harmony and interest for the general reader . The translation , however , of the ...
... verse . It was proposed , in the critical pieces , to retain the extracts ' with which they were originally adorned , as this would give them far more harmony and interest for the general reader . The translation , however , of the ...
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... verses in which I have told , by means of various like- nesses , in an imperfect fashion , how it is with me in this matter ? Lord H. - Do so ! I shall hear them gladly ; for I , like you , though with less time and learning to perfect ...
... verses in which I have told , by means of various like- nesses , in an imperfect fashion , how it is with me in this matter ? Lord H. - Do so ! I shall hear them gladly ; for I , like you , though with less time and learning to perfect ...
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... verse : -- Whereas my birth and spirits rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book , And wrap me in a gown . It was not my fault , George , that it so chanced . George H. - I have long learnt to ...
... verse : -- Whereas my birth and spirits rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book , And wrap me in a gown . It was not my fault , George , that it so chanced . George H. - I have long learnt to ...
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... verse or write a hymn in kind . Whereas , if the heart be moved , Although the verse be somewhat scant , God doth supply the want- As when the heart says , sighing to be approved , " Oh , could I love ! " and stops ; God writeth , loved ...
... verse or write a hymn in kind . Whereas , if the heart be moved , Although the verse be somewhat scant , God doth supply the want- As when the heart says , sighing to be approved , " Oh , could I love ! " and stops ; God writeth , loved ...
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... verse , let us now change our subject too , and walk homeward ; for I trust you , this night , intend to make my roof happy in your presence , and the sun is sinking . Lord H. - Yes , you know I am there to be introduced to my new ...
... verse , let us now change our subject too , and walk homeward ; for I trust you , this night , intend to make my roof happy in your presence , and the sun is sinking . Lord H. - Yes , you know I am there to be introduced to my new ...
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Page 71 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 70 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning « Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Page 72 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view.
Page 37 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 88 - And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; I see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are!
Page 40 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace— all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.
Page 87 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Page 20 - Angel's age. God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth ; Engine against th...
Page 75 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 74 - Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew Yet dripping with the forest's noonday dew, Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart Shook the weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart.