English Poetry: Volume 2P.F. Collier & son, 1910 - English poetry Vol.1 Chaucer to Gray, Vol. 2 Collins to Fitzgerald. |
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Page 511
... breast And gentle throat sae narrow ; There's sport eneuch for gentlemen On Leader haughs and Yarrow . ' O Leader haughs are wide and braid And Yarrow haughs are bonny ; There Willie hecht to marry me If e'er he married ony . ' But ...
... breast And gentle throat sae narrow ; There's sport eneuch for gentlemen On Leader haughs and Yarrow . ' O Leader haughs are wide and braid And Yarrow haughs are bonny ; There Willie hecht to marry me If e'er he married ony . ' But ...
Page 523
... breast , and turns the past to pain . In all my wanderings through this world of care , In all my griefs - and God has given my share— I still had hopes , my latest hours to crown , Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband ...
... breast , and turns the past to pain . In all my wanderings through this world of care , In all my griefs - and God has given my share— I still had hopes , my latest hours to crown , Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband ...
Page 525
... breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift , now no longer proud , Claim'd kindred there , and had his claims allow'd ; The broken soldier , kindly bid to stay , Sat by his fire , and talk'd the night away ; — Wept o'er his wounds , or , tales of ...
... breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift , now no longer proud , Claim'd kindred there , and had his claims allow'd ; The broken soldier , kindly bid to stay , Sat by his fire , and talk'd the night away ; — Wept o'er his wounds , or , tales of ...
Page 526
... breast the rolling clouds are spread , Eternal sunshine settles on its head . Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way , With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay , There , in his noisy mansion , skill'd to rule , The village master ...
... breast the rolling clouds are spread , Eternal sunshine settles on its head . Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way , With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay , There , in his noisy mansion , skill'd to rule , The village master ...
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... breast alternate passions rise , Pleas'd with each good that heaven to man supplies : Yet oft a sigh prevails , and sorrows fall , To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish , amidst the scene , to find Some spot to real ...
... breast alternate passions rise , Pleas'd with each good that heaven to man supplies : Yet oft a sigh prevails , and sorrows fall , To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish , amidst the scene , to find Some spot to real ...
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Page 651 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more Sublime ; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on. — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and...
Page 718 - But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing...
Page 670 - 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? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 653 - 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 652 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied; or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 903 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 853 - Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then, as I am listening now...
Page 967 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life ! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 900 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow 198 And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Page 685 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...