PoemsG. Routledge and Sons, 1866 - 719 pages |
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... better man . " Whether he had been as various and successful in his amours as he would lead his readers to think , I know not ; but there was always a reckless- ness of the peace of others which led him to write verses to every lady he ...
... better man . " Whether he had been as various and successful in his amours as he would lead his readers to think , I know not ; but there was always a reckless- ness of the peace of others which led him to write verses to every lady he ...
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... better , and gave birth to no love . Through the whole of his writings , from " English Bards to the last Canto of " Don Juan , " there is one prominent character in the scene . I know not whether he wished it ; if he did , he failed in ...
... better , and gave birth to no love . Through the whole of his writings , from " English Bards to the last Canto of " Don Juan , " there is one prominent character in the scene . I know not whether he wished it ; if he did , he failed in ...
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... better directed . Such powers are given to so few , that the possessor ought to prove a certain blessing to his species - the clever , the dazzling , the perplexing , however wonderful , do not constitute all Je have a right to expect ...
... better directed . Such powers are given to so few , that the possessor ought to prove a certain blessing to his species - the clever , the dazzling , the perplexing , however wonderful , do not constitute all Je have a right to expect ...
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... better things than sneering : Of smoothing compliments divested , Advice at least's disinterested ; Such is my artless song to thee , From all the flow of flattery free ; Counsel like mine is like a brother's , My heart is given to some ...
... better things than sneering : Of smoothing compliments divested , Advice at least's disinterested ; Such is my artless song to thee , From all the flow of flattery free ; Counsel like mine is like a brother's , My heart is given to some ...
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... better , in such snowy weather , Than placed in all th ' Arcadian groves That ever witness'd rural loves ; In the above little piece , the author has been accused by some candid readers of introducing the name of a lady from whom he was ...
... better , in such snowy weather , Than placed in all th ' Arcadian groves That ever witness'd rural loves ; In the above little piece , the author has been accused by some candid readers of introducing the name of a lady from whom he was ...
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Page 556 - 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 "Cameron's gathering
Page 534 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 556 - No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet— But hark!— that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than> before! Arm! Arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar!
Page 302 - 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. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 674 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Page 350 - The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 354 - With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they ? We were all...
Page 558 - There have been tears and breaking hearts for thee, And mine were nothing, had I such to give ; But when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, Which living waves where thou didst cease to live, And saw around me the wide field revive With fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth her work of gladness to contrive, With all her reckless birds upon the wing, I turn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Page 350 - Less wretched now, and one day free ; He, too, who yet had held untired A spirit natural or inspired — He, too, was struck, and day by day, Was wither'd on the stalk away.
Page 549 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth...