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... wood ; For , at a word , be it understood , He was always for ill , and never for good . Seem'd to the boy , some comrade gay Led him forth to the woods to play ; On the drawbridge the warders stout Saw a terrier and lurcher passing out ...
... wood ; For , at a word , be it understood , He was always for ill , and never for good . Seem'd to the boy , some comrade gay Led him forth to the woods to play ; On the drawbridge the warders stout Saw a terrier and lurcher passing out ...
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... wood ; For , at a word , be it understood , He was always for ill , and never for good . Seem'd to the boy , some comrade gay Led him forth to the woods to play ; On the drawbridge the warders stout Saw a terrier and lurcher passing out ...
... wood ; For , at a word , be it understood , He was always for ill , and never for good . Seem'd to the boy , some comrade gay Led him forth to the woods to play ; On the drawbridge the warders stout Saw a terrier and lurcher passing out ...
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... wood , And check'd his fellow's surly mood , And quell'd the ban - dog's ire : He was an English yeoman good , And born in Lancashire . Well could he hit a fallow - deer Five hundred feet him fro ; With hand more true , and eye more ...
... wood , And check'd his fellow's surly mood , And quell'd the ban - dog's ire : He was an English yeoman good , And born in Lancashire . Well could he hit a fallow - deer Five hundred feet him fro ; With hand more true , and eye more ...
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... his bosom stood , And it was earthly steel and wood . * Bandelier , belt for carrying ammunition . † Hackbuteer , musketeer . XXIII . She drew the splinter from the wound , 28 CANTO III . THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL .
... his bosom stood , And it was earthly steel and wood . * Bandelier , belt for carrying ammunition . † Hackbuteer , musketeer . XXIII . She drew the splinter from the wound , 28 CANTO III . THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL .
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... wood , and river , rung around . The blast alarm'd the festal hall , And startled forth the warriors all ; Far downward , in the castle - yard , Full many a torch and cresset glared ; And helms and plumes , confusedly toss'd , Were in ...
... wood , and river , rung around . The blast alarm'd the festal hall , And startled forth the warriors all ; Far downward , in the castle - yard , Full many a torch and cresset glared ; And helms and plumes , confusedly toss'd , Were in ...
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Page 141 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bridemaidens whispered, '"Twere better, by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar...
Page 54 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 47 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind. In body and in soul can bind.
Page 14 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Page 209 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Page 140 - River where ford there was none : But ere he alighted at Netherby gate The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 179 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 65 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead...
Page 75 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 349 - A weary lot is thine, fair maid, A weary lot is thine ! To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, And press the rue for wine ! A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien, A feather of the blue, A doublet of the Lincoln green. — No more of me you knew, My love ! No more of me you knew. ' This morn is merry June, I trow, The rose is budding fain ; But she shall bloom in winter snow Ere we two meet again.