The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes |
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A. H. Clough Alfred Tennyson beauty beneath bird breast breath bright C. G. Rossetti cheek child cowslips dark dead dear death deep dream earth Emmie eyes face fair flowers glory golden gone grave gray green grief hair hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hills hope kiss knew land leave light little birdie live Locksley Hall lone look look'd Lord Houghton Lord Tennyson Mother never night o'er O'Shaughnessy once pain pass'd passion poet proputty Ravelston rest rose round Scholar Gipsy seem'd shadow ship sigh silence sings Sir Richard Grenville Sirmio sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit stars stirr'd stream summer sweet tears Tennyson-Turner thee Theocritus thine things thou thought thro Thyrsis turn'd voice vrom wave weary weep wild wind wonder words zome
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Page 195 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me ! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark ; For tho...
Page 78 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 88 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 59 - Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young: And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, And a voice said in mastery while I strove, . . . »Guess now who...
Page 190 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 134 - Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!
Page 29 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
Page 139 - Since I needs must say my say, Since on board the duty's done, And from Malo Roads to Croisic Point, what is it but a run? Since 'tis ask and have, I may Since the others go ashore Come! A good whole holiday! Leave to go and see my wife, whom I call the Belle Aurore!
Page 186 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 109 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way ? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day ? From morn to night, my friend.