The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts, Volumes 1-2C. Scribner & Company, 1868 - American poetry |
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... JACKDAW OF RHEIMS . HE jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair ! Bishop , and abbot , and prior were there ; Many a monk , and many a friar , Many a knight , and many a squire , With a great many more of lesser degree- In sooth , a goodly ...
... JACKDAW OF RHEIMS . HE jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair ! Bishop , and abbot , and prior were there ; Many a monk , and many a friar , Many a knight , and many a squire , With a great many more of lesser degree- In sooth , a goodly ...
Page 170
... jackdaw ! " The feast was over , the board was cleared , The flawns and the custards had all disappeared , And six little singing boys - dear little souls ! In nice clean faces and nice white stoles , Came , in order due Two by two ...
... jackdaw ! " The feast was over , the board was cleared , The flawns and the custards had all disappeared , And six little singing boys - dear little souls ! In nice clean faces and nice white stoles , Came , in order due Two by two ...
Page 171
... jackdaws , Deposits it straight By the side of his plate , While the nice little boys on his Eminence wait ; Till , when nobody's dreaming of any such thing , That little jackdaw hops off with the ring ! * * * ** There's a cry and a ...
... jackdaws , Deposits it straight By the side of his plate , While the nice little boys on his Eminence wait ; Till , when nobody's dreaming of any such thing , That little jackdaw hops off with the ring ! * * * ** There's a cry and a ...
Page 172
... jackdaw ! No longer gay , As on yesterday ; His feathers all seemed to be turned the wrong way ; His pinions drooped - he could hardly stand- His head was as bald as the palm of your hand ; His eye so dim , So wasted each limb That ...
... jackdaw ! No longer gay , As on yesterday ; His feathers all seemed to be turned the wrong way ; His pinions drooped - he could hardly stand- His head was as bald as the palm of your hand ; His eye so dim , So wasted each limb That ...
Page 173
... jackdaw ! Then the great Lord Cardinal called for his book , And off that terrible curse he took ; The mute expression Served in lieu of confession , And , being thus coupled with full restitution , The jackdaw got plenary absolution ...
... jackdaw ! Then the great Lord Cardinal called for his book , And off that terrible curse he took ; The mute expression Served in lieu of confession , And , being thus coupled with full restitution , The jackdaw got plenary absolution ...
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The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts, Volumes 1-2 Caroline Matilda Kirkland No preview available - 2018 |
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angel beautiful beneath bird blessed blue brave breast breath bright brow Caldon Low cheer child clouds cried dark dear death deep doth earth Eliza Cook eyes face fair father fear feet flowers Frances Anne Kemble glory glow golden green hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven Henry of Navarre jackdaw Katydid kiss lady land Leigh Hunt light lips LITTLE ROBIN REDBREASTS live look Lord Mary Howitt merry morning mother mountain ne'er never night o'er ocean Pixies poor pray prayer rest rose round sail Samian wine shine shore sing sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound stars stood sweet tears tell tempest thee thine thing Thomas Hood thou thought tree Twas voice waves weary ween weep wild wind wings Winthrop Mackworth Praed word
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Page 275 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 54 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 182 - Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: — Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
Page 217 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 240 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 331 - s not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 192 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 181 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, a<s the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 255 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 273 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.