Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith, and Thomson. With Sketches of the Authors' Lives, Notes, and Glossaries. For Use in Schools and Classes |
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... hope that these specimens stand clear of that fault . It may be well to add , that I am far from ignoring or disparaging various other English poets , especially Spenser and Milton , in reference to the purpose for which this volume is ...
... hope that these specimens stand clear of that fault . It may be well to add , that I am far from ignoring or disparaging various other English poets , especially Spenser and Milton , in reference to the purpose for which this volume is ...
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... hope in the revolutionary cause . When every month brought tidings of fresh enormities in France , and opponents taunted him with these results of equality and popular government , he retorted that these were but the overflow of a res ...
... hope in the revolutionary cause . When every month brought tidings of fresh enormities in France , and opponents taunted him with these results of equality and popular government , he retorted that these were but the overflow of a res ...
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... hope . While in this sort the simple household lived From day to day , to Michael's ear there came Distressful tidings . Long before the time Of which I speak , the Shepherd had been bound In surety for his brother's son , a man Of an ...
... hope . While in this sort the simple household lived From day to day , to Michael's ear there came Distressful tidings . Long before the time Of which I speak , the Shepherd had been bound In surety for his brother's son , a man Of an ...
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... hope is a good hope . Make ready Luke's best garments , of the best Buy for him more , and let us send him forth To - morrow , or the next day , or to - night : If he could go , the Boy should go to - night . " Here Michael ceased , and ...
... hope is a good hope . Make ready Luke's best garments , of the best Buy for him more , and let us send him forth To - morrow , or the next day , or to - night : If he could go , the Boy should go to - night . " Here Michael ceased , and ...
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... hope ; - we both may live To see a better day . At eighty - four I still am strong and hale ; -do thou thy part ; I will do mine . I will begin again — With many tasks that were resign'd to thee : Up to the heights , and in among the ...
... hope ; - we both may live To see a better day . At eighty - four I still am strong and hale ; -do thou thy part ; I will do mine . I will begin again — With many tasks that were resign'd to thee : Up to the heights , and in among the ...
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Page 93 - Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 245 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Page 161 - No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of Travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day?
Page 522 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 135 - Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company...
Page 79 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will:...
Page 94 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our...
Page 250 - Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they ; The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet ; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 246 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.
Page 129 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.