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... limb ; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim . IX . His had been quaff'd too quickly , and he found The dregs were wormwood ; but he fill'd again , And from a purer fount , on holier ground , And deem'd its spring ...
... limb ; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim . IX . His had been quaff'd too quickly , and he found The dregs were wormwood ; but he fill'd again , And from a purer fount , on holier ground , And deem'd its spring ...
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... limbs where nothing hid them , thou dost rear Thy grassy banks whereon the milk - white steer Grazes ; the purest god of gentle waters ! And most serene of aspect , and most clear : Surely that stream was unprofaned by slaugthers-- A ...
... limbs where nothing hid them , thou dost rear Thy grassy banks whereon the milk - white steer Grazes ; the purest god of gentle waters ! And most serene of aspect , and most clear : Surely that stream was unprofaned by slaugthers-- A ...
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... limbs black with lightning - dost thou yet Guard thine immortal cubs , nor thy fond charge forget ? Thou dost ; - LXXXIX . but all thy foster - babes are dead The men of iron ; and the world hath rear'd Cities from out their sepulchres ...
... limbs black with lightning - dost thou yet Guard thine immortal cubs , nor thy fond charge forget ? Thou dost ; - LXXXIX . but all thy foster - babes are dead The men of iron ; and the world hath rear'd Cities from out their sepulchres ...
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... limbs array'd , and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot - the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain , and might , And majesty , flash their full ...
... limbs array'd , and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot - the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain , and might , And majesty , flash their full ...
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... limb , And got clear off , although the attempt was rash ; He said that Providence protected him For my part , I say nothing , lest we clash In our opinions : -well , the ship was trim , Set sail , and kept her reckoning fairly on ...
... limb , And got clear off , although the attempt was rash ; He said that Providence protected him For my part , I say nothing , lest we clash In our opinions : -well , the ship was trim , Set sail , and kept her reckoning fairly on ...
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Page 20 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 184 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys ; and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 94 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 11 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 183 - 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 18 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 154 - Oh Love ! no habitant of earth thou art — An unseen seraph, we believe in thee, A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart, But never yet hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye, thy form, as it should be ; The mind hath made thee, as it peopled heaven, Even with its own desiring phantasy, And to a thought such shape and image given, As haunts the unquench'd soul — parch'd — wearied — wrung — and riven.
Page 158 - Hues which have words, and speak to ye of heaven, Floats o'er this vast and wondrous monument, ' And shadows forth its glory. There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Page 36 - The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
Page 19 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.