The World's Best Poetry: National spirit; [introductory essay] The study of poetry, by F.H. StoddardJ.D. Morris, 1904 - English poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 78
Page xii
... dead warrior the moan of la- mentation fitted itself to the slower moving to and fro of the mourner , and hence came the elegy . its first expression this was but inarticulate , half action , half music , dumbly voicing the emotion ...
... dead warrior the moan of la- mentation fitted itself to the slower moving to and fro of the mourner , and hence came the elegy . its first expression this was but inarticulate , half action , half music , dumbly voicing the emotion ...
Page 4
... dead Who never to himself hath said , This is my own , my native land ! Whose heart has ne'er within him burned , As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe , go , mark him well ; For ...
... dead Who never to himself hath said , This is my own , my native land ! Whose heart has ne'er within him burned , As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe , go , mark him well ; For ...
Page 15
... dead , some of them fled , And some stayed to live on the island . Then a very great war - man , called Billy the Nor- man , Cried , “ Drat it , I never liked my land . It would be much more handy to leave this Nor- mandy , And live on ...
... dead , some of them fled , And some stayed to live on the island . Then a very great war - man , called Billy the Nor- man , Cried , “ Drat it , I never liked my land . It would be much more handy to leave this Nor- mandy , And live on ...
Page 25
... dead boy lies . And many a moon and sun will see The lingering wistful children wait To climb upon their father's knee ; And in each house made desolate Pale women who have lost their lord Will kiss the relics of the slain- Some ...
... dead boy lies . And many a moon and sun will see The lingering wistful children wait To climb upon their father's knee ; And in each house made desolate Pale women who have lost their lord Will kiss the relics of the slain- Some ...
Page 26
... dead , And will not yield them back again . Wave and wild wind and foreign shore Possess the flower of English land— Lips that thy lips shall kiss no more , Hands that shall never clasp thy hand . What profit now that we have bound The ...
... dead , And will not yield them back again . Wave and wild wind and foreign shore Possess the flower of English land— Lips that thy lips shall kiss no more , Hands that shall never clasp thy hand . What profit now that we have bound The ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Alma River arms banner battle beneath blood blue bonnie Dundee brave breast breath bright brow cheer cried Danny Deever dark dead death deep drum dying Earl earth EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN England eyes face fall fame father fear fell fierce fight fire flag flash fought freedom gallant German German's fatherland glory grave gray guns Guthrum hand hath hear heard heart heaven heroes hills Hurrah JOHN JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER King land Liberty light look Lord loud marching Maryland mighty morn ne'er never night o'er poem poetry Rhine roar roll round Samian wine SENTINEL SONGS shore shout sing Sir Patrick Spens slain slave sleep smile soldier song soul sound spear steed stood storm sweet sword tears thee thine THOMAS BUCHANAN READ THOMAS CAMPBELL thou thunder tread voice wave wild wind wound
Popular passages
Page 30 - For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard. All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding calls not Thee to guard; For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord. "Amen.
Page 444 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, — The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 151 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave...
Page 290 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Page 221 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 168 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on.
Page 148 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 285 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — " The foe ! they come, they come ! " And wild and high the
Page 280 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 291 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.