A Household Book of English Poetry, Issue 160Macmillan, 1870 - 438 pages |
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... things value gold . Where goodness wants an equal change to make , There greatness serves , or number place doth take . No mortal thing can bear so high a price , But that with mortal thing it may be bought ; The corn of Sicil buys the ...
... things value gold . Where goodness wants an equal change to make , There greatness serves , or number place doth take . No mortal thing can bear so high a price , But that with mortal thing it may be bought ; The corn of Sicil buys the ...
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What thing is Love , which nought can countervail ? Nought save itself , ev'n such a thing is Love . All worldly ... things the eyes approve , Which yet the heart doth seldom love . For as the seeds , in springtime sown , Die in the ...
What thing is Love , which nought can countervail ? Nought save itself , ev'n such a thing is Love . All worldly ... things the eyes approve , Which yet the heart doth seldom love . For as the seeds , in springtime sown , Die in the ...
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... things worse : Some would have children ; those that have them , moan , Or wish them gone : What is it , then , to have , or have no wife , But single thraldom , or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a ...
... things worse : Some would have children ; those that have them , moan , Or wish them gone : What is it , then , to have , or have no wife , But single thraldom , or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a ...
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... thing , While all is still and calm , The praise of God to play and sing With cornet and with shalm ! All labourers draw home at even , 125 And can to other say , Thanks to the gracious God of heaven , Which sent this summer day ...
... thing , While all is still and calm , The praise of God to play and sing With cornet and with shalm ! All labourers draw home at even , 125 And can to other say , Thanks to the gracious God of heaven , Which sent this summer day ...
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... thing which I do most in her admire , Is of the world unworthy most envíed ; For in those lofty looks is close implied Scorn of base things and sdeign of foul dishonour , Threatening rash eyes which gaze on her so wide , That loosely ...
... thing which I do most in her admire , Is of the world unworthy most envíed ; For in those lofty looks is close implied Scorn of base things and sdeign of foul dishonour , Threatening rash eyes which gaze on her so wide , That loosely ...
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Page 248 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 282 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 85 - Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 257 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 285 - 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 215 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd 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...
Page 339 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 26 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 51 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings. Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 293 - O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed ; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity : Cold Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, ! " Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.