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... wanted sun , nor rain , nor dew , Nor pastimes of the May , -They all were with her in her cell ; And a wild brook with cheerful knell Did o'er the pebbles play . When Ruth three seasons thus had lain , There came NARRATIVE POEMS . 29.
... wanted sun , nor rain , nor dew , Nor pastimes of the May , -They all were with her in her cell ; And a wild brook with cheerful knell Did o'er the pebbles play . When Ruth three seasons thus had lain , There came NARRATIVE POEMS . 29.
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... cheerful company , That learned of him submissive ways ; And comforted his private days . To his side the Fallow - deer Came , and rested without fear ; The Eagle , lord of land and sea , Stooped down to pay him fealty ; And both the ...
... cheerful company , That learned of him submissive ways ; And comforted his private days . To his side the Fallow - deer Came , and rested without fear ; The Eagle , lord of land and sea , Stooped down to pay him fealty ; And both the ...
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... Cheerfully uttered , with demeanour kind , But stately in the main ; and when he ended , I could have laughed myself to scorn to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind . " God , " said I , " be my help and stay secure ; I'll think of ...
... Cheerfully uttered , with demeanour kind , But stately in the main ; and when he ended , I could have laughed myself to scorn to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind . " God , " said I , " be my help and stay secure ; I'll think of ...
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... cheerful mind , —and buffeted with bond , Interest , and mortgages ; at last he sank , And went into his grave before his time . Poor Walter whether it was care that spurred him God only knows , but to the very last He had the lightest ...
... cheerful mind , —and buffeted with bond , Interest , and mortgages ; at last he sank , And went into his grave before his time . Poor Walter whether it was care that spurred him God only knows , but to the very last He had the lightest ...
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... cheerful love . LEONARD . He could not come to an unhallowed end ! PRIEST . Nay , God forbid ! -You recollect I mentioned A habit which disquietude and grief Had brought upon him ; and we all conjectured That , as the day was warm , he ...
... cheerful love . LEONARD . He could not come to an unhallowed end ! PRIEST . Nay , God forbid ! -You recollect I mentioned A habit which disquietude and grief Had brought upon him ; and we all conjectured That , as the day was warm , he ...
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beauty behold beneath birds blessed breath bright cheerful Child clouds dark dead dear delight doth dream earth face fair faith Father fear feel fields flowers Friend give glad glory gone grave green grove hand happy hath head hear heard heart Heaven hills hope hour human kind land leave less light live look mind morning mortal mountain Nature never o'er once passed past peace pleasure poet poor praise rest rock round season seemed seen shade side sight silent sing sleep song sorrow soul sound spirit Spring stand stars Stream summer sweet tears thee things thou thought trees truth turned Vale voice wind wish woods Yarrow youth
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Page 224 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 206 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized...
Page 202 - 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 202 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 188 - It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought : Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright : Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn ; Abides by this resolve, and stops not there, But makes his moral being his prime care ; Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity...
Page 3 - She had a rustic, woodlai.d air, And she was wildly clad; Her eyes were fair, and very fair; — Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be? " " How many? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me.
Page 216 - The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country ! — am I to be blamed ? But when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men...
Page 200 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face...
Page 200 - The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires: My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Page 62 - Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep — in his extreme old age: His body was bent double, feet and head Coming together in life's pilgrimage; As if some dire constraint of pain, or rage Of sickness felt by him in times long past, A more than human weight upon his frame had cast.