English Minstrelsy: Being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from the Best English Authors; with Some Original Pieces, Hitherto Unpublished, Volume 1Walter Scott |
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... mind : The difference this , their hair is often bound ; But never bonds a woman might embound . False is their flattering colour , false and fading ; False is their flattering tongue ; false every part , Their hair is forged , their ...
... mind : The difference this , their hair is often bound ; But never bonds a woman might embound . False is their flattering colour , false and fading ; False is their flattering tongue ; false every part , Their hair is forged , their ...
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... mind's pure glass when I myself behold , And lively see how my best days are spent , What clouds of care above my head are roll'd , What coming ill , which I cannot prevent : My course begun I , wearied , do repent , And would embrace ...
... mind's pure glass when I myself behold , And lively see how my best days are spent , What clouds of care above my head are roll'd , What coming ill , which I cannot prevent : My course begun I , wearied , do repent , And would embrace ...
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... . To poor Septimus , ( who did now Nothing else but Acme grow , ) Acme's bosom was alone The whole world's imperial throne , And to faithful Acme's mind Septimus was all humankind . 10 If the Gods would please to be But advised for 31.
... . To poor Septimus , ( who did now Nothing else but Acme grow , ) Acme's bosom was alone The whole world's imperial throne , And to faithful Acme's mind Septimus was all humankind . 10 If the Gods would please to be But advised for 31.
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... mind ! Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born , and bred on high , To crown the favourites of the sky , With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , O whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek contented ...
... mind ! Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born , and bred on high , To crown the favourites of the sky , With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , O whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek contented ...
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... whirling down the eddy . " But , out of mind when out of view , " Some other mounts the twig anew ; " And business , on each monkey shore , " Runs the same track it went before . " XXI . ON THE DEATH OF CADOGAN.- TICKELL OF Marlborough's ...
... whirling down the eddy . " But , out of mind when out of view , " Some other mounts the twig anew ; " And business , on each monkey shore , " Runs the same track it went before . " XXI . ON THE DEATH OF CADOGAN.- TICKELL OF Marlborough's ...
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airy Albret ANTISTROPHE arms Arthur ranged Avalonia bards beneath blast blest bliss bloom bold bosom bower breast breath bright brow Cardigan charm Coimbra cries crown dark dear death death's domain delight dost thou Doth dwell e'er fair fame fancy fate Fear flame flower fond frantic band Ganymede gentle glow grace grove hail hand happy hast hath haunt hear heart heaven Hebrides heroic arts hour king land Line 8th live maid monarch mourn muse nature pants ne'er night numbers nymph o'er pale passion peace plain pride queen rage rise rocks round rude scene shade shed shine shore sighs sing smiling song soul spread spring strain stranger band stream sung swain sweet tale taught tear temperate vale thee thine toil Urien vale wake warble waves wild wind wing wretch Yarrow youth
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Page 84 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Page 210 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For Nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Page 89 - There must thou wake perforce thy Doric quill; Tis Fancy's land to which thou sett'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.
Page 22 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy...
Page 217 - No sedge-crowned sisters now attend, Now waft me from the green hill's side, Whose cold turf hides the buried friend...
Page 65 - TIMELY blossom, Infant fair, Fondling of a happy pair, Every morn and every night Their solicitous delight, Sleeping, waking, still at ease, Pleasing, without skill to please ; Little gossip, blithe and hale, Tattling many a broken tale, Singing many a tuneless song, Lavish of a heedless tongue ; Simple maiden, void of art, Babbling out the very heart, Yet...
Page 89 - But think far off how, on the southern coast, I met thy friendship with an equal flame!
Page 90 - These are the themes of simple, sure effect, That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-commanding strain.
Page 43 - The silent heart, which grief assails, Treads soft and lonesome o'er the vales, Sees daisies open, rivers run, And seeks (as I have vainly done) Amusing thought ; but learns to know That solitude 's the nurse of woe.
Page 40 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.