Living English poets [selections from their works].1883 - 325 pages |
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... wings ; So that I welcomed this one resting - place , Pleased as a bird , that , when its forces fail , Lights panting in the ocean's middle space Upon a sunny sail . And now the grace of fiction , which has power To render things ...
... wings ; So that I welcomed this one resting - place , Pleased as a bird , that , when its forces fail , Lights panting in the ocean's middle space Upon a sunny sail . And now the grace of fiction , which has power To render things ...
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... wing to Paradise again , Leaving all listening spirits raised above The toil of earth , the trouble , and the pain , And melted all in love : Such hidden might , such power was in the sound ; But when it ceased sweet music to unlock ...
... wing to Paradise again , Leaving all listening spirits raised above The toil of earth , the trouble , and the pain , And melted all in love : Such hidden might , such power was in the sound ; But when it ceased sweet music to unlock ...
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... wings They drop within the serpent's glare : Eyes flashing fire in burning rings Which spread into the dazzled air ; They flutter in the glittering coils ; The charmer dreads the serpent's toils . While Music swims away in death Man's ...
... wings They drop within the serpent's glare : Eyes flashing fire in burning rings Which spread into the dazzled air ; They flutter in the glittering coils ; The charmer dreads the serpent's toils . While Music swims away in death Man's ...
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English poets. The serpent falls ; like demon wings The far - out branching cedar swings . The wood swims round ; the pool and skies Have met ; the death - drops down that cheek Fall faster ; for the serpent's eyes Grow human , and the ...
English poets. The serpent falls ; like demon wings The far - out branching cedar swings . The wood swims round ; the pool and skies Have met ; the death - drops down that cheek Fall faster ; for the serpent's eyes Grow human , and the ...
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... wings and sings , Let us cry " All good things Are ours , nor soul helps flesh more , now , than flesh helps soul ! " Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage , Life's struggle having so far reached its term : Thence shall I ...
... wings and sings , Let us cry " All good things Are ours , nor soul helps flesh more , now , than flesh helps soul ! " Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage , Life's struggle having so far reached its term : Thence shall I ...
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BABETTE Bassarid beneath birds Born breast breath bright brow CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI dark dead death deep doth dream Drowsietown earth eyes face faint fair fear feet fire flowers Godmar golden grass green grow hair hand hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hill hounds of spring Jehane King kiss laughed leave light lips live morn murmur night nightingale o'er Ozana pain pale powers of Pain rain rest RICHARD WATSON DIXON ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN rose round shadows shining shore silent sing SIR BORS sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound stars stood stream strive strong sundew sweet thee THEOPHILE MARZIALS thine things THOMAS WOOLNER thought thro To-morrow turn turn'd unto VIEUXBOIS Vizier voice vrom wake waves weep WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE Wilt thou wind wings
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Page 121 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 115 - Rejoice we are allied To That which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive! A spark disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of his tribes that take, I must believe.
Page 117 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 113 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 121 - Fool! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be: Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.
Page 179 - A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face ? You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night ? Those who have gone before. Then must I knock, or call when just in sight ? They will not keep you standing at the door.
Page 118 - Youth ended, I shall try My gain or loss thereby; Leave the fire ashes, what survives is gold: And I shall weigh the same, Give life its praise or blame: Young, all lay in dispute; I shall know, being old.
Page 163 - From his late sobbing wet. And I, with moan, Kissing away his tears, left others of my own; For, on a table drawn beside his head, He had put, within his reach, A box of counters and a...
Page 250 - The sun burns sere and the rain dishevels One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless breath. Only the wind here hovers and revels In a round where life seems barren as death. Here there was laughing of old, there was weeping, Haply, of lovers none ever will know, Whose eyes went seaward a hundred sleeping Years ago. Heart handfast in heart as they stood, 'Look thither,
Page 141 - O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife — Fly hence, our contact fear!