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... dear , so dear , That I would be the jewel 171 That trembles in her ear ; For hid in ringlets day and night , I'd touch her neck so warm and white . And I would be the girdle About her dainty dainty waist , And her heart would beat ...
... dear , so dear , That I would be the jewel 171 That trembles in her ear ; For hid in ringlets day and night , I'd touch her neck so warm and white . And I would be the girdle About her dainty dainty waist , And her heart would beat ...
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... Dear mother Ida , harken ere I die . For now the noonday quiet holds th bill ; The grasshopper is silent in the grass The lizard , with his shadow on the stone , Rests like a shadow , and the winds ar dead . The purple flower droops ...
... Dear mother Ida , harken ere I die . For now the noonday quiet holds th bill ; The grasshopper is silent in the grass The lizard , with his shadow on the stone , Rests like a shadow , and the winds ar dead . The purple flower droops ...
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... Dear mother Ida , harken ere I die . Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , Fresh as the foam , new - bathed in Pa- phian wells , 170 With rosy slender fingers backward drew From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair Ambrosial , golden round ...
... Dear mother Ida , harken ere I die . Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , Fresh as the foam , new - bathed in Pa- phian wells , 170 With rosy slender fingers backward drew From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair Ambrosial , golden round ...
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... dear , To - morrow ' ill be the happiest tim of all the glad New - year ; To - morrow ' ill be of all the year th maddest merriest day , For I'm to be Queen o ' the May , mother I'm to be Queen o ' the May . NEW - YEAR'S EVE IF you're ...
... dear , To - morrow ' ill be the happiest tim of all the glad New - year ; To - morrow ' ill be of all the year th maddest merriest day , For I'm to be Queen o ' the May , mother I'm to be Queen o ' the May . NEW - YEAR'S EVE IF you're ...
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... dear old time , and all my peace of mind ; ad the New - year's coming up , mo- ther , but I shall never see e blossom on the blackthorn , the leaf upon the tree . 1st May we made a crown of flowers ; we had a merry day ; eneath the ...
... dear old time , and all my peace of mind ; ad the New - year's coming up , mo- ther , but I shall never see e blossom on the blackthorn , the leaf upon the tree . 1st May we made a crown of flowers ; we had a merry day ; eneath the ...
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Page 118 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 203 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 66 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence — ripen, fall, and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease...
Page 284 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Page 552 - Came on the shining levels of the- lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt: For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery.
Page 338 - Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 210 - We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. 61 Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 552 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 86 - And colorless, and like the wither'd moon Smote by the fresh beam of the springing east; And all his greaves and cuisses dash'd with drops Of onset; and the light and lustrous curls — That made his forehead like a rising sun High from the...
Page 554 - So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur : But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the mere.