The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 41
Page 2
... beams , And thou two sweeter eyes Shalt see than those which by Penéus ' streams Did once thy heart surprize . Now , Flora , deck thyself in fairest guise : If that ye winds would hear A voice surpassing far 2 THE GOLDEN TREASURY.
... beams , And thou two sweeter eyes Shalt see than those which by Penéus ' streams Did once thy heart surprize . Now , Flora , deck thyself in fairest guise : If that ye winds would hear A voice surpassing far 2 THE GOLDEN TREASURY.
Page 17
... streams ran beside her . My wanton thoughts enticed mine eye To see what was forbidden : But better memory said , fie ! : - So vain desire was chidden : - Hey nonny nonny O ! Hey nonny nonny ! Into a slumber then I fell , When fond ...
... streams ran beside her . My wanton thoughts enticed mine eye To see what was forbidden : But better memory said , fie ! : - So vain desire was chidden : - Hey nonny nonny O ! Hey nonny nonny ! Into a slumber then I fell , When fond ...
Page 51
... fly away Like empty shadows , did afflict my brain ) Walk'd forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver - streaming Thames ; Whose rutty bank , the which his river hems , Was painted all with variable flowers , And all the BOOK FIRST ...
... fly away Like empty shadows , did afflict my brain ) Walk'd forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver - streaming Thames ; Whose rutty bank , the which his river hems , Was painted all with variable flowers , And all the BOOK FIRST ...
Page 52
... of Leda , whiter did appear ; Yet Leda was ( they say ) as white as he , Yet not so white as these , nor nothing near ; So purely white they were That even the gentle stream , the which them bare 52 THE GOLDEN TREASURY.
... of Leda , whiter did appear ; Yet Leda was ( they say ) as white as he , Yet not so white as these , nor nothing near ; So purely white they were That even the gentle stream , the which them bare 52 THE GOLDEN TREASURY.
Page 53
That even the gentle stream , the which them bare , Seem'd foul to them , and bade his billows spare To wet their silken feathers , lest they might Soil their fair plumes with water not so fair , And mar their beauties bright That shone ...
That even the gentle stream , the which them bare , Seem'd foul to them , and bade his billows spare To wet their silken feathers , lest they might Soil their fair plumes with water not so fair , And mar their beauties bright That shone ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Anon Arethuse art thou beauty behold beneath birds bonnie bower breast breath bright Brignall brow cheek chidden clouds County Guy dark dead dear death delight dost doth dream drest earth eyes fair Fancy fear flowers frae gentle glory golden Gray green H. F. Lyte happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven hill Kirconnell kiss leaves light live look'd Lord Lord Byron Love's lover Lycidas lyre mind morn mountains Muse ne'er never night Nymph o'er P. B. Shelley pale passion Pindar pleasure poem Poetry poets Rosaline rose round seem'd shade Shakespeare shore sigh silent sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit Spring star stream sweet tears tell Tereus thee There's thine thou art thought tree Twas voice waly waly waves weep white-thorn wild winds wings Wordsworth Yarrow youth
Popular passages
Page 247 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 92 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 103 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 203 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return,...
Page 10 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 397 - 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 shalt 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.
Page 290 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Page 204 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride...
Page 413 - Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather > Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 145 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale And love the high-embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof And storied windows richly dight Casting a dim religious light : There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage,...