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... tell my hidden heart With open freedom - O full well I know , It is a noble habit in an earl , 15 To lock the cupboard of his soul , and safe Keep his thought - hoard , while , as he will , he thinks , A wearied mind may not withstand ...
... tell my hidden heart With open freedom - O full well I know , It is a noble habit in an earl , 15 To lock the cupboard of his soul , and safe Keep his thought - hoard , while , as he will , he thinks , A wearied mind may not withstand ...
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... tell of those loved peers , This wall huge - high , spotted with carven snakes ! The strength of ashen spears took off the earls , 100 Blood - thirsty weapons , and the far - famed Wyrd ! Lo ! these hewn cliffs are beaten by the storms ...
... tell of those loved peers , This wall huge - high , spotted with carven snakes ! The strength of ashen spears took off the earls , 100 Blood - thirsty weapons , and the far - famed Wyrd ! Lo ! these hewn cliffs are beaten by the storms ...
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... all the manere Betwayne them two ; we wyll also Tell all the payne and fere That she was in . Nowe I begyn , So that ye me answere : Wherefore all ye that present be , I pray you 26 ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH POETRY The Nut-Brown Maid.
... all the manere Betwayne them two ; we wyll also Tell all the payne and fere That she was in . Nowe I begyn , So that ye me answere : Wherefore all ye that present be , I pray you 26 ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH POETRY The Nut-Brown Maid.
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... tell anone : 50 For in my mynde , of all mankynde I love but you alone . ' ” HE . " It standeth so : a dede is do Wherof grete harme shall growe . My destiny is for to dy A shamefull deth , I trowe , Or elles to fle : the one must be ...
... tell anone : 50 For in my mynde , of all mankynde I love but you alone . ' ” HE . " It standeth so : a dede is do Wherof grete harme shall growe . My destiny is for to dy A shamefull deth , I trowe , Or elles to fle : the one must be ...
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... tell ye why ; You appetyght is to be lyght Of love , I wele espy : 245 For lyke as ye have sayed to me , In lyke wyse , hardely , 250 Ye wolde answere , whosoever it were , In way of company . It is sayd of olde , Sone hote , sone colde ...
... tell ye why ; You appetyght is to be lyght Of love , I wele espy : 245 For lyke as ye have sayed to me , In lyke wyse , hardely , 250 Ye wolde answere , whosoever it were , In way of company . It is sayd of olde , Sone hote , sone colde ...
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Page 190 - 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 cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 205 - 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.
Page 67 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 67 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 190 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth : of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create...
Page 203 - 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 299 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 298 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Page 272 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Page 400 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.