The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author ...Little, Brown & Company, 1860 |
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... prayer the Pilgrim went ; ' Twas silence all around , Save his own echo from the cell , And the large drops that frequent fell With dull and heavy sound . 12 . But colder now he felt the cell ; Those heavy drops no longer fell ; Thin ...
... prayer the Pilgrim went ; ' Twas silence all around , Save his own echo from the cell , And the large drops that frequent fell With dull and heavy sound . 12 . But colder now he felt the cell ; Those heavy drops no longer fell ; Thin ...
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... prayer ; When at the word , " I warn thee thrice ! " Down came the mass of mountain - ice , And overwhelmed him there . 20 . Crushed though it seemed in every bone , And sense for suffering left alone , A living hope remained : In whom ...
... prayer ; When at the word , " I warn thee thrice ! " Down came the mass of mountain - ice , And overwhelmed him there . 20 . Crushed though it seemed in every bone , And sense for suffering left alone , A living hope remained : In whom ...
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... prayer , " Lord , thou canst save ! " he said ; And then a breath from Eden came ; With life and healing through his frame The blissful influence spread . 29 . No Fiends may now his way oppose ; The gates of Paradise unclose ; Free ...
... prayer , " Lord , thou canst save ! " he said ; And then a breath from Eden came ; With life and healing through his frame The blissful influence spread . 29 . No Fiends may now his way oppose ; The gates of Paradise unclose ; Free ...
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... prayer , St. Michael ! and spare My husband's life , " quoth she ; " And to thine altar we will go , Six marks to give to thee . " Richard Penlake repeated the vow ; For woundily sick was he : " Save me , St. Michael ! and we will go ...
... prayer , St. Michael ! and spare My husband's life , " quoth she ; " And to thine altar we will go , Six marks to give to thee . " Richard Penlake repeated the vow ; For woundily sick was he : " Save me , St. Michael ! and we will go ...
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... prayer :, She left him to pray , and stole away To sit in St. Michael's chair . Up the tower Rebecca ran , Round and round and round : ' Twas a giddy sight to stand atop , And look upon the ground . " A curse on the ringers for rocking ...
... prayer :, She left him to pray , and stole away To sit in St. Michael's chair . Up the tower Rebecca ran , Round and round and round : ' Twas a giddy sight to stand atop , And look upon the ground . " A curse on the ringers for rocking ...
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Page 137 - She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round, Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found, That was so large, and smooth, and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh, ' Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Page 137 - It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
Page 140 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ? " Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
Page 126 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was still as she could be, Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean.
Page 61 - The summer and autumn had been so wet, That in winter the corn was growing yet ; 'Twas a piteous sight to see all around The grain lie rotting on the ground. Every day the starving poor Crowded around Bishop Hatto's door, For he had a plentiful last year's store, And all the neighbourhood could tell His granaries were furnish'd well.
Page 129 - On the deck the Rover takes his stand; So dark it is, they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, "It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
Page 138 - And often when I go to plough The ploughshare turns them out. For many thousand men," said he, "Were slain in that great victory." "Now tell us what 'twas all about," Young Peterkin he cries; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; "Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.
Page 37 - Roll'd through the fertile plain ; And often the way-faring man Would love to linger there, Forgetful of his onward road, To gaze on scenes so fair. But never could Lord William dare To gaze on Severn's stream ; In every wind that swept its waves He heard young...
Page 9 - She loved ; and young Richard had settled the day, And she hoped to be happy for life : But Richard was idle and worthless, and they Who knew him would pity poor Mary, and say, That she was too good for his wife.
Page 129 - Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell. " They hear no sound ; the swell is strong ; Though the wind hath fallen, they drift along, Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock: " O Christ! it is the Inchcape Rock!